Mosque Name: Masjid al Khamis
Country: Bahrain
City: Manama
Year of construction (AH): 99 AH
Year of construction (AD): 717 AD
GPS: Coordinates: 26.2082°N 50.5483°E
ArchNet: http://archnet.org/sites/3788
Gibson Classification: unknown
Rebuilt facing Mecca: 449⁄1058 AD
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Description:
The Suq al-Khamis, or Thursday market Mosque, is situated in the southern suburb of Manama, four kilometers away from Al Khamis town. Its construction date is debated and there are possibly remains of two mosques on this site. Some archaeologists suggest that the early mosque was built in 717, during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Omar bin Abdul-Aziz, with only a qibla wall. The later mosque can be dated by an inscription on the more modern qibla wall attesting that the current building was built in 1058 (near the end of Qaramathian rule) upon the request of two dignitaries from Bahrain, Abdulla Bin Bahlool and Abu Al Waleed Musallam. This wall has a mihrab, and the Qibla direction is half way between Mecca and a Between Qibla.
The mosque is no longer used.
Plan of the Al-Khamis Mosque site with excavation units completed by BACA shown
Credit Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities
The Al-Khamis Mosque, Bahrain
Credit Professor Timothy Insoll
References:
Insoll, Timothy, Almahari, Salman, MacLean, Rachel, Priestman, Seth, Al-Mearaj, Muhammad, and Nick J. Overton, 2016. “Bilad al-Qadim Revisited: Recent Archaeological Research at the Al-Khamis Mosque, Ain Abu Zaydan, and Abu Anbra, Bahrain”, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27(2): 215-242. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aae.12078
Kervan, Monik, 1990. “La mosque al-Khamis à Bahrain: Son histoire et ses inscriptions. I. Le monument”, Archéologie Islamique 1: 7-51.
Kalus, Ludvik, 1990. “La mosque al-Khamis à Bahrain: Son histoire et ses inscriptions. II. Les inscriptions”, Archéologie Islamique 1: 53-73.
Whitehouse, David, 2003. “The al-Khamis Mosque on Bahrain: A Note on the First and Second Phases”, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 14(1): 95-102. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1600-0471.2003.00010.x
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