Mosque Name: Rabadha Town and Mosque
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Rabadha
Year of construction (AD): 800-899
Rabadha Mosque 1
GPS: 24.631142 41.290238
Gibson Classification: Between
Rabadha Mosque Area C
GPS: 24.632400 41.289835
Gibson Classification: Unknown
Description:
This site is an early Islamic city situated on the pilgrimage route running between Al-Kufa in Iraq and Mecca. It lies about 200 km east of Medina. Twenty years of excavation on the site have revealed a very well developed city consisting of large houses with huge fortified walls, watchtowers, and the remains of mosques, pottery kilns, stone-working factories, jewelry, and two large reservoirs of different shapes.
The Area C mosque dates from 801. Dated by soapstone vessels on the surface of the site, glass on the surface of the site, copper-alloy objects on the surface of the site. The mosque is 20.15 x 22.75 meters. It has a semicircular mihrab.
Mosque 1 is about 9 x 12 meters and faces about 310 degrees. Gibson classifies this as Between.
Note the large cistern on the right.
The ruins of Rabadha
Note the square columns.
The large cistern
References:
Al-Rāshid, Saʿad bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, 1986. Al-Rabadhah. A Portrait of Early Islamic Civilisation in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: King Saudi University.
Al-Dayel, K., al-Ḥilwa, Salāh, and Neil Mackenzie, 1979. “Preliminary Report on the Third Season of Darb Zubaydah Survey,1978”, Atlal 3: 43-54.
Schiettecatte, Jérémie, Darles, Christian, and Pierre Siméon, 2019. “A Friday Mosque Founded in the Late First Century A.H. at al-Yamāmah: Origins and Evolution of Islamic Religious Architecture in Najd”, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 49: 247-264.
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