Pictures of ancient mosques in Saudi Arabia
Arabiaweather.com - During your performance of the Hajj and after you have finished it, your faith charges will push you to follow this religious journey and learn more about it, and to get to know more mosques whose name has a share of its story that you may hear for the first time.
Among them, we mention: The Allegiance Mosque, whose archaeological history dates back to the year 144 AH, was built by the Abbasid Caliph Abu Jaafar al-Mansur in the place where the allegiance took place in commemoration of this memory. It contains a mihrab and an annex with a courtyard larger than its area overlooking Mina from the northern side at the southern slope of Mount "Thubair" overlooking a people known as "the people of the supporters" or "the people of allegiance".
"Mosque of the Jinn" in which the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, received the pledge of allegiance to the jinn in it, and one of his nights a group of the jinn listened to the Messenger - may God bless him and grant him peace - while he was reciting the Qur'an, and Surah Al-Jinn was revealed. The mosque is located in front of the Al-Mu’alla cemetery in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and some of the people of Makkah call it the Guards Mosque. It was renewed more than once throughout the Islamic ages.
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