Husseini Mosque

The Grand Husseini Mosque is a Friday mosque, located in downtown , . It is one of the oldest mosques in the city, and one of the main landmarks of the downtown area.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Sunni
  • Description: Oldest mosque in Amman, situated in the downtown area on Talal Street
  • Also known as: “Al Husseini Mosque”, “Grand Husseini Mosque”, and “Grand Husseini Mosque, Al Hussein Bin Talal Mosque”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Roman Theater and Citadel Hill.

Theater building
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Roman Theatre of is a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre. A famous landmark in the Jordanian capital, it dates back to the Roman period when the city was known as Philadelphia. is situated 490 metres northeast of Husseini Mosque.

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The Amman Citadel on is an archaeological site on an L-shaped hill towering over Downtown Amman, in the central part of the capital of . is situated 580 metres north of Husseini Mosque.

Museum
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The Amman Citadel on Citadel Hill is an archaeological site on an L-shaped hill towering over Downtown Amman, in the central part of the capital of . is situated 500 metres north of Husseini Mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amman and Al-Wehdat camp.

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
is the capital and largest city of the Hashemite Kingdom of with a population of about 4 million as of 2020. forms a great base for exploring the country and does, despite popular belief, hold a few items of interest to the traveler.

Neighborhood
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Amman New Camp, usually known as the Al-Wehdat or Al-Wihdat camp, which is located in the Hay Al Awdah neighbourhood in southeast , the capital city of , occupies a 0.48 km2.

Neighborhood
Photo: Hasanisawi, Public domain.
is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in . It is located outside of the Abdali area district of .

Husseini Mosque

Latitude
31.94967° or 31° 56′ 59″ north
Longitude
35.93467° or 35° 56′ 5″ east
Open location code
8G3QWWXM+VV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 178938551
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­sunni
Wiki­data ID
Q12192959
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Husseini Mosque” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المسجد الحسيني”
  • Bengali: “গ্র্যান্ড হুসাইনি মসজিদ”
  • Czech: “Mešita Al-Husajní”
  • Czech: “Mešita Al-Hussejní”
  • Dutch: “Al-Husseini-moskee”
  • German: “Al-Husseini-Moschee”
  • Greek: “Μέγα Τζαμί του Χουσεΐν”
  • Hausa: “Babban Masallacin Husseini”
  • Japanese: “フセイニ・モスク”
  • Japanese: “フセイン・モスク”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita Al-Hussein”
  • Urdu: “مسجد حسینی”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Husayn al-Kabir masjidi”

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