At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
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Summary
The al-Sahlah Mosque of Kufa — 'the surviving remnant of the mosques the tribes staked out after the Jami'' and the most renowned of the mosques the Shi'a hold blessed 1.
It stands today in Kufa's outskirts about two kilometres northwest of the Great Mosque; al-Majlisi's report counts it among the blessed mosques alongside those of Ghani, Bani Zafar, al-Hamra and Ja'fi 1.
The fabric
The source surmises the mosque predates Ali's arrival at Kufa, and cites Ibn al-Faqih's report identifying Ali's 'masjid Zafar' — one of Kufa's sanctified plots — as al-Sahlah. It measures 125×140 m with walls some 22 m high, each of its four sides reinforced by equally-spaced semicircular towers, and the prayer hall is paved in 24×24 cm brick 1.
Sources
- Mawsu'at al-Atabat al-Muqaddasa — Ja'far al-Khalili (Samarra section)
- Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Sahlah Mosque, Kufa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/al-sahlah-mosque/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.