Sayyida Zaynab Mosque, Syria

The Sayyida Zaynab Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلسَّيِّدَة زَيْنَب, romanized: Masjid as-Sayyidah Zaynab) is a mosque located in Sayyidah Zaynab near the capital city of Damascus, Syria. Twelver Shia tradition considers the mosque to contain the grave of Zaynab bint Ali, the daughter of Ali and Fatima, and granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

For other uses, see Sayyidah Zainab Mosque.

Sayyida Zaynab Mosque
مَسْجِد ٱلسَّيِّدَة زَيْنَب

Twelver Shia Islam

Sayyidah Zaynab, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria

33°26′40″N 36°20′27″E / 33.44444°N 36.34083°E / 33.44444; 36.34083

Rida Mourtada

Mosque

1990

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Isma'ili Shia tradition place Zaynab's tomb in the mosque of the same name in Cairo, Egypt. The tomb became a centre of Twelver religious studies in Syria and a destination of mass pilgrimage by Twelver Shia Muslims from across the Muslim world, beginning in the 1980s. The zenith of visitation normally occurs in the summer. The present-day mosque that hosts the tomb was built in 1990.^[1]