Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Medina Region

Masjid Ghamama

Mosque of Al-Ghamamah is a , located in , . The mosque is located at 500 m west of As-Salam door of .
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Photo: Imam Khairul Annas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Sunni
  • Description: Historic mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia
  • Also known as: “Masjid al-Ghamamah”, “Masjid Musalla”, and “Mosque of Al-Ghamama”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Prophet’s Mosque and Maqbara Al Baqeea.

Mosque
Photo: Bluemangoa2z, Public domain.
The Prophet's Mosque is the second mosque built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in , after the Quba Mosque, as well as the second largest mosque and holiest site in Islam, after the in , in the region of the . is situated 530 metres northeast of Masjid Ghamama.

Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.
Jannat al-Baqī is the oldest and first Islamic cemetery of located in the region of present-day . It is also known as Baqi al-Gharqad. is situated 1 km east of Masjid Ghamama.

Building
Photo: Abdul Hafeez Bakhsh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a green-coloured dome built above the tombs of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the first two Rashidun caliphs, Abu Bakr and Umar. The dome was built above Aisha's house where Muhammad is believed to have died and been buried. is situated 490 metres northeast of Masjid Ghamama.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Medina.

Photo: Medineli, Public domain.
, officially known as Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, is a city in the region of . Commonly referred to as the "cradle of Islamic culture and civilisation", it is Islam's second holiest city.

Masjid Ghamama

Latitude
24.46581° or 24° 27′ 57″ north
Longitude
39.60696° or 39° 36′ 25″ east
Open location code
7GPXFJ84+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 369055309
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­sunni
Wiki­data ID
Q12242769
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Masjid Ghamama” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مسجد الغمامة”
  • Arabic: “مسجد المصلى”
  • Bengali: “আল-গামামাহ মসজিদ”
  • Central Kurdish: “مزگەوتی غەمامە”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد الغمامه”
  • German: “Al-Ghamama Moschee”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Al-Ghamamah”
  • Urdu: “مسجد الغمامہ”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Gʻomama masjidi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Masjid Ghamama”. Photo: Imam Khairul Annas, CC BY-SA 3.0.