the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)
الكهف بقاسيون (كهف جبريل)
The mosque raised inside the cave of Mount Qasyun by Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim beginning in 370, after a dream in which Jibril bade him build a mosque where God's name would be remembered — he called it Jibril's Cave; a broad prayer-hall floored in white marble, its columns all marble, never empty of the pious at remembrance 1.
At a glance
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
Its construction
Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'allim began building it in 370 AH. The report says that he saw Gabriel in a dream, ordering him to build a mosque in which God would be prayed to and remembered. 1
Its description
Al-Umari describes it as a spacious mosque, paved with white marble, with all its columns of marble. He adds that it is never without the presence of the righteous, and is kept full of remembrance. 1
What needs a source
The dream is a report transmitted by al-Umari alone, and it needs an additional source.
Connections
- Located in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· استيلاء العادل على دمشق· موقعة مرج راهط· بناء جامع دمشق· سقوط دمشق بيد أتسز· The Conquest of Damascus· al-Aziz's siege of Damascus and the partition settlement (590 AH)
Sources
- Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing), p. 209
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/kahf-jibril-qasyun/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.