Masjid Aqsab

Neighborhood in Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria
Masjid Aqsab
مسجد الأقصاب
Neighborhood
33°31′5″N 36°18′41″E / 33.51806°N 36.31139°E / 33.51806; 36.31139
Country Syria
GovernorateDamascus Governorate
SubdistrictDamascus
MunicipalitySarouja
Population
 (2004)
 • Total14,148

Masjid Aqsab (Arabic: مسجد الأقصاب), also called Masjid al-Qasab, is a neighborhood and district of the Sarouja municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 14,148 in the 2004 census.[1] The neighborhood was founded during the Mamluk era (14th century) as a suburb of the walled city of Damascus, bordering the Bab al-Salam gate to the south and contiguous with the al-Faradis neighborhood to the west.[2] It was built around the Aqsab Mosque, after which the neighborhood was named. The mosque purportedly contained the graves of seven Sahaba (companions of Muhammad).[2] In the 1936 French Mandate census, the neighborhood had a population of 6,900, all Muslims.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Damascus Governorate Population 2004 Census". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  2. ^ a b Kenney, Ellen V. (2009). Power and Patronage in Medieval Syria: The Architecture and Urban Works of Tankiz Al-Nāṣirī. Middle East Documentation Center. p. 18.
  3. ^ Khoury, Philip S. (1993). "Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: The Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate". In Hourani, Albert (ed.). The Modern Middle East. University of California Press. p. 433.
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