Nabi Yahya Mosque
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The Nabi Yahya Mosque is a mosque containing the traditional tomb of Yahya in Sebastia, Nablus. The mosque also reputedly contains the tombs of the prophets Elisha and Obadiah. This mosque was origina
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A sign in the mosque, 2018
The ruins of the crusader cathedral in the 1840s, from The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia.
John the Baptist in Islam
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Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā, identified Biblically as John the Baptist, is considered in Islam a prophet of God who was sent to guide the Children of Israel. He was the maternal cousin of Isa and believed by
Nabi Yahya Mosque
…Arabic: جَامِع ٱلنَّبِي يَحْيَىٰ, romanized: Jāmiʿ An-Nabī Yaḥyā, lit. 'Mosque of the Prophet John') is a mosque containing the traditional tomb of Yahya (John the Baptist) in Sebastia, Nablus. The mosque also reputedly contains the tombs of the prophets Elisha and Obadiah. This mosque was originally a…
Baby Yahya being held by two angels, late 16th century illustration from Ottoman manuscript
Shrine purportedly housing the head of Yahya in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria
Like Yahya, Muhammad's grandson Al-Husain was beheaded, and his head was temporarily kept here, in what is now the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus