مسجد السهلة

مسجد السهلة

The al-Sahlah Mosque of Kufa; the Mawsu'at al-Atabat calls it 'the surviving remnant of the mosques the tribes staked out after the Jami'' and the most renowned of the mosques the Shi'a hold blessed, alongside the mosques of Ghani, Bani Zafar, al-Hamra and Ja'fi — today in Kufa's outskirts about two kilometres northwest of the Great Mosque. The source surmises it predates Ali's arrival at Kufa and cites Ibn al-Faqih's report identifying Ali's 'masjid Zafar' as al-Sahlah; it measures 125×140 m with walls some 22 m high, each side reinforced by equally-spaced semicircular towers, the prayer hall paved in 24×24 cm brick ¹.