Hussein Mosque
The al-Hussein Mosque or al-Husayn Mosque, also known as the Mosque of al-Imam al-Husayn and the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Husayn, is a mosque and mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali, originally built in 1154, and then later reconstructed in 1874.Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Mosque
- Denomination: Shia
- Description: mosque in Egypt
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- Categories: building, place of worship and religion
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.04784° or 30° 2' 52" northLongitude
31.26321° or 31° 15' 48" eastOpen Location Code
8G2H27X7+47OpenStreetMap ID
way 24748791OpenStreetMap Feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap Feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap Attribute
denomination=shiaWikidata ID
Q2279688Hussein Mosque Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: المشهد الحسيني بالقاهرة
- Arabic: جامع الحسين بالقاهرة
- Arabic: جامع الحسين في القاهرة
- Arabic: مسجد الإمام الحسين
- Arabic: مسجد الإمام الحسين بالقاهرة
- Arabic: مسجد الإمام الحسين بالقاهره
- Arabic: مسجد الحسين
- Arabic: مسجد الحسين في القاهرة
- Arabic: مشهد الحسين بن علي بالقاهرة
- Azerbaijani: Əl-Hüseyn məscidi
- Bengali: আল-হুসেইন মসজিদ
- Chinese: 伊玛目侯赛因清真寺
- Czech: Husajnova mešita
- Dutch: Al-Hussein Mosque
- Egyptian Arabic: جامع الحسين
- Egyptian Arabic: جامع سيدنا الحسين
- English: Al-Hussain Mosque
- English: Al-Hussein Mosque
- German: Imam-Husain-Moschee
- German: Sayyidna-al-Husain-Moschee
- Hausa: Masallacin Hussaini
- Hebrew: מסגד אל-חוסיין
- Indonesian: Masjid Al-Husain
- Italian: moschea di al-Husayn
- Japanese: マスジド・イマーム・フサイン
- Kazakh: Әл-Хусейн мешіті
- Kinyarwanda: Umusigiti wa Al-Hussein
- Korean: 후세인 모스크
- Macedonian: Џамија Ал-Хусеин
- Norwegian: Al-Hussein-moskeen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Al-Hussein-moskeen
- Persian: مسجد امام حسین (قاهره)
- Persian: مسجد امام حسین
- Russian: Мечеть Аль-Хуссейн
- Russian: Мечеть аль-Хусейна
- Swedish: Al Hussein-moskén
- Tamil: ஹுசைன் பள்ளிவாசல், கெய்ரோ
- Ukrainian: Мечеть аль-Хусейна
- Urdu: مسجد الحسین
- Urdu: مسجد حسین
- Western Mari: Аль-Хусейн мечеть
- Western Mari: Имам Хусейн мечеть
- Western Panjabi: مسجد الحسین
- Moschea di al-Husayn
- حسين
Other Places Named Hussein Mosque
Landmarks in the Area
- Coffee shop meeting place160 metres west
- خان الخليلي و ش الحسينMuseum, 210 metres west
- Khan el-Khalili210 metres west
- سيدنا الحسينMuseum, 220 metres southwest
- Madrasa And Mausoleum Of Sultan Al_Salih Nagm Al_Din AyyubMosque, 230 metres northwest
Places in the Area
- الحسينCoffeehouse
- elezabyPharmacy
- Christmas Bazaar MostafaShop
- El Zahraa CafeRestaurant
- Nour ElsabahHotel, 110 metres west
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Hussein Mosque. Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.