Al-Nabi Shith Mosque ( ar, مسجد النبي سيث, Mosque of the Prophet Sheet) was a historic Shi'ite Muslim mosque and shrine in Mosul, Iraq. The shrine is believed to contain the tomb of

Seth Seth,; el, Σήθ ''Sḗth''; ; "placed", "appointed") in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mandaeism, and Sethianism, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, their only other child mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. A ...

, third son of

Adam Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...

, known by Muslims as Sheth or simply Shith.

History

The mosque dates back to the Ottoman period. It was built by Ahmad Basha ibn Suleyman Basha al-Jalili in 1815. The mosque was also at the centre of a cemetery, which had mausoleums present in the 20th century. At some point of time, the original Ottoman-period structure was destroyed and in the 1970s until 1980s a new mosque building and

minaret A minaret (; ar, منارة, translit=manāra, or ar, مِئْذَنة, translit=miʾḏana, links=no; tr, minare; fa, گل‌دسته, translit=goldaste) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques. Minarets are generall ...

were built over the destroyed site.

2014 demolition

On 24 July 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant detonated explosives inside the Al-Nabi Shith Mosque, destroying it completely. The militants had also allegedly removed artifacts from the shrine and took them to an unknown location.

2022 reconstruction

References

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