Mosque Name: Wadi Shireh Open Air Mosque
Country: Jordan
City: Wadi Rum
Year of construction (AH): 728
Year of construction (AD): 109
GPS: 29.777571, 35.609588
Gibson Classification: Unknown
Rebuilt facing Mecca: unknown
Description:
The mosque is located in a large Bedouin encampment with traces of tents and a cemetery which extends to the south off the mosque beyond a small sayl. The plan of the mosque is approximately square, without a miḥrāb. However in the center of qibla wall there are two inscriptional stones. An entrance must have existed in the north wall of the mosque via a courtyard with a segmentally curved north wall.
In 1997 Robert Hoyland published one of the inscriptions which provided a date for the mosque. Translation: “In the name of Allāh, the Merciful, the Compassionate; O God accept from ʿAbd Allāh bin Sayd his prayer and his fasting, keep him among his family, and act as his deputy for his [ …] and make him virtuous. You have power over all things. May Allāh grant him peace. And peace be upon him and mercy of Allāh and His blessings. And it was written in Ramadhān of the year one hundred and nine.”
More information can be found on pages 162-164 in: Islamic Heritage Sites in Jordan, A Student’s Gazetteer, prepared by the MA-Students of The German-Jordanian University, in Architectural Conservation School for Architecture and Built Environment Academic Years, 2017 - 2020, edited by Thomas M. Weber-Karyotakis & Ammar Khammash with Hussein al-Aza‘at, Nader Atiyeh, Catreena Hamarneh, Khairiyeh al-Kukhun & Robert Schick. GJU, Amman 2020
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Exterior view from the South West. (G. Corbett)
Drawing of location of inscriptions.
Qibla Directions
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