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Sidi Bishr Mosque

mosque in Egypt

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The Sidi Bishr Mosque stands in the Sidi Bishr neighbourhood of Alexandria, on Egypt's north coast, within the Al Mandarah area. Arabic sources describe it as one of the city's landmarks.

The mosque takes its name from Sheikh Bishr Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ubayd Allah Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Bishr Al-Jawhari. He was a sheikh of the late 5th to early 6th century AH (late 11th to early 12th century CE) who came from the Maghreb and settled in Alexandria.

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The Sidi Bishr Mosque (Arabic: مسجد سيدي بشر, romanized: Masjid Sīdī Bishr) is a mosque located in the Sidi Bishr neighborhood of Alexandria, on the north coast of Egypt. The mosque is named in honour of Sheikh Bishr Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ubayd Allah Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Bishr Al-Jawhari, a sheikh from the late 5th-century to early 6th-century AH (late 11th-century to early 12th-century CE) who lived in Alexandria after coming from the Maghreb.

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