Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque
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Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque, also known as the Mosque of the Prophet Jonah, and the Shrine of Nabi Yunis, was a historic Sunni congregational mosque and shrine, partially destroyed in 2014, that was located
The destroyed mosque and shrine in 2019
The complex in 1932.
The mosque and shrine in 2011, prior to its 2014 demolition by ISIL
The mosque and shrine in 1999
Jonah in Islam
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Yunus ibn Matta is a prophet of God in Islam corresponding to Jonah son of Amittai in the Hebrew Bible. Jonah is the only one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible to be named in the Quran.
Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque
…2014, that was located in Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. It contained a tomb believed to be that of the Abrahamic prophet Jonah, known as Yunus by Muslims. After the liberation of Mosul, additional excavations revealed the ruins of a Neo-Assyrian palace beneath the mosque. In 1349, the remains…
Jonah and the giant fish in the Jami' al-tawarikh (c. 1400), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Islamic miniature of Yunus being rescued from the fish by the angel Jibril.