Sayyidah Ruqayya Shrine

The Sayyida Ruqayya Mosque is a Twelver Shia and mausoleum complex, located in , . The complex contains the grave of Sukainah, also known as "Ruqayya", the young daughter of Al-Husayn ibn Ali.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Description: Mosque in Damascus, Syria
  • Also known as: “Sayyida Ruqayya Mosque” and “Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Umayyad Mosque and Bab al-Faradis.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of , the capital of , is one of the largest and oldest in the world. is situated 200 metres south of Sayyidah Ruqayya Shrine.

City gate
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or Bab al-Amara is one of the seven ancient city-gates of , . The other name, Bab Al-Amara, refers to a name of a district in the old city where people in the 14th century would meet.

Castle
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Al-Azm Palace is a palace in , , built in 1749. Located north of Al-Buzuriyah Souq in the Ancient City of Damascus, the palace was built in 1749 to be the private residence for As'ad Pasha al-Azm, the governor of Damascus; during the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, it housed the French Institute. is situated 340 metres south of Sayyidah Ruqayya Shrine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Damascus and Sarouja.

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is the capital and largest city of . A city of immense historical importance, was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.

Town
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is a municipality of , , due north of the Old Damascus. It was the first part of Damascus to be built outside the city walls in the 13th century.

Town
is a neighbourhood and municipality in , , south of the old walled city and near the modern city centre. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 177,456.

Sayyidah Ruqayya Shrine

Latitude
33.51327° or 33° 30′ 48″ north
Longitude
36.30733° or 36° 18′ 26″ east
Open location code
8G5RG874+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1486782802
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q3399936
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Sayyidah Ruqayya Shrine” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقام السيدة رقية بنت الحسين”
  • Arabic: “مقام رقية بنت الحسين”
  • Bengali: “সাইয়্যিদা রুকাইয়া মসজিদ”
  • Chinese: “賽義達·魯蓋亞清真寺”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقام رقيه بنت الحسين”
  • Esperanto: “Sajjidah Rukajja Moskeo”
  • Fulah: “Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque”
  • Hausa: “Masallacin Sayyidah Ruqayya”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד סיידה רוקיה”
  • Igbo: “Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Sayyidah Ruqayya”
  • Korean: “사이이다 루콰이야 모스크”
  • Korean: “이란 사원”
  • Macedonian: “Сејуде Рукаја”
  • Macedonian: “Џамија Сајудах Рукаја”
  • Persian: “حرم رقیه”
  • Persian: “مسجد سیده رقیه”
  • Persian: “مسجد سیدهٔ رقیه”
  • Swedish: “Ruqayya bint Husayns helgedom”
  • Urdu: “سیدہ رقیہ مسجد”
  • Uzbek: “Sayyida Ruqayya masjidi”

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