Friday, August 19, 2011

Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem (built in 705) and Masjid Al-Zaytun, Tunisia (Built in 709)

Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem (built in 705) 
 
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holy place for the Sunni Muslims after the Prophet's Mosque and the Kaaba. Muslims believe that the Ummah of the Prophet Muhammad traveled from Mecca to the Aqsa Mosque, as part of a series of events Ascension. Some literature also mentions that the Prophet Muhammad led prayers at a mosque in this part of the long period after the Ascension of the Prophet, so obtaining God's command to return to the Kaaba.

Masjid Al-Zaytun, Tunisia (Built in 709) 
Al-Zaytuna Mosque, or also called Ez-Zitouna/Ezzitouna Mosque, is a large mosque in Tunisia, countries in the northern coast of Africa. With an area of 5000 square meters, has nine gates of the mosque entrance and has 160 original ceramic taken from the ancient city of Carthage. Masjid Al-Zaytun also known as a place of its inception one of the Muslim ummah prestigious universities, with graduates including Ibn 'Arafa, Imam Maziri, until the poet's largest Muslim Tunisia, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi.

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