Aqsab Mosque

{{Short description|Mosque in Damascus, Syria}}

{{about|the mosque in Damascus|the Damascus neighborhood by the same name|Masjid Aqsab}}

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The Aqsab Mosque ({{langx|ar|جَامِع الْأَقْصَاب|Jāmiʿ al-ʾAqṣāb}}, English: Mosque of the Sugarcanes) is an Ayyubid-era mosque in Damascus, Syria. It is on Suq Sarujiyya outside the walls of the old city, near the Bab al-Salam gate.[http://www.archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=10081 Aqsab Mosque] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908040400/http://www.archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=10081 |date=2009-09-08 }} Archnet Digital Library.

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Bibliography

  • {{Cite book|title=Arabic Islamic Architecture: Its Characteristics and Traces in Syria|first=Abdul Qader|last=Rihawi|publisher=Publications of the Ministry of Culture and National Leadership|year=1979}}

{{Mosques in Syria}}

{{Damascus}}

Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1234

Category:Mosques completed in the 1230s

Category:Ayyubid mosques in Syria

Category:Architecture in Syria

Category:Mosques in Damascus

Category:Buildings and structures inside the walled city of Damascus

Category:13th-century establishments in the Ayyubid Sultanate

Category:Mosque buildings with minarets in Syria

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