The Prophet's Mosque in Medina is the mosque the Prophet ﷺ and his companions built when they arrived in 622 CE. Its first walls were mud brick and its roof was palm leaves, and in it the Prophet taught and prayed with his companions. Muslims still visit it today.
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Prophet's Mosque
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The Prophet founded his mosque in Medina in 622 CE, right after the Hijra, on land that had been a drying yard for dates, bought from two orphans of Banu al-Najjar. The first building was simple: mud-brick walls, a roof of palm fronds on palm trunks, and three doors. The mosque held prayer, teaching and the community's affairs together, and one part — the Suffa — housed poor emigrants. The Prophet and the Rightly Guided caliphs enlarged it, then the Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman caliphs. Today it contains the Prophet ﷺ's grave in Aisha's chamber and the Rawda between his grave and his pulpit.
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