Bahsita Mosque ( ar, جَامِع بَحْسِيتَا, Jāmiʿ Baḥsītā), also known as Sita Mosque, is one of the historical mosques in

Aleppo )), is an adjective which means "white-colored mixed with black". , motto = , image_map = , mapsize = , map_caption = , image_map1 = ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, dating back to the

Mamluk Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...

period. It is located in al-Aqaba district of the

Ancient City of Aleppo The Ancient City of Aleppo ( ar, مدينة حلب القديمة, Madīnat Ḥalab al-Qadīma) is the historic city centre of Aleppo, Syria. Before the Syrian Civil War, many districts of the ancient city remained essentially unchanged since it ...

, near the

Bab al-Faraj Clock Tower Bab al-Faraj Clock Tower ( ar, برج ساعة باب الفرج) is one of the main landmarks of Aleppo, Syria. It was built in 1898-1899 by the French architect of Aleppo city ''Charles Chartier'' with the help of the Syrian engineer ''Bakr Si ...

and the

National Library of Aleppo The National Library of Aleppo ( ar, دار الكتب الوطنية) is a Syrian national library in the northern city of Aleppo. It was opened in 1924, at the Islamic awqaf department in Khan al-Jumrok at the time of the French Mandate. Hist ...

. It was built in 1350. According to the Aleppine historian Sheikh Kamel al-Ghazzi, the name of the mosque is derived from the

Syriac Syriac may refer to: *Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic *Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region * Syriac alphabet ** Syriac (Unicode block) ** Syriac Supplement * Neo-Aramaic languages a ...

name of the neighbourhood ''Bet Hasiota'' ( ar, بَيْت حَسِيُوتَا, Bayt Ḥasiyūtā) or ''Bet Hasda'' ( ar, بَيْت حَسْدَا, Bayt Ḥasdā), meaning the ''house of purity''. In 1911, the octagonal minaret of the mosque was moved to the eastern side of the building to allow enough space to widen the nearby street.Bahsita mosque
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