Masjid Aqsab

This article is about the neighborhood in Damascus. For the mosque by the same name, see Aqsab Mosque.
Masjid Aqsab
مسجد الأقصاب
Neighborhood
Masjid Aqsab is located in Syria
Masjid Aqsab
Masjid Aqsab
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 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)
 • Total
14,148

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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