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The
Husseini
scene..
Here
lies
the
head
of
Imam
Hussein
The
Al-Hussein
Mosque,
or
what
is
known
as
the
Al-Husseini
Landscape,
was
established
in
the
year
1154
AD,
so
that
the
head
of
Imam
Al-Hussein
bin
Ali
bin
Abi
Talib
would
move
to
it.
Nothing
remains
of
the
mosque
now
except
the
door
known
as
the
Green
Gate,
which
is
located
east
of
the
front
side
of
the
mosque.
As
for
the
minaret
erected
above
the
door,
it
is
inferred
from
a
historical
inscription.
A
plaque
at
the
bottom
states
that
it
was
built
in
1237
AD,
at
the
end
of
the
Ayyubid
era,
and
nothing
remains
of
it
except
its
square
base,
which
is
decorated
with
exquisite
plaster
decorations.
The
mosque
includes
five
rows
of
arches
carried
on
marble
columns,
and
its
mihrab
is
made
of
fine
scraps,
the
small
pieces
of
which
are
made
of
colored
tile
instead
of
marble.
Next
to
it
is
a
pulpit
made
of
wood,
adjacent
to
which
are
two
doors
leading
to
the
dome,
and
another
leads
to
the
waste
room
in
which
the
prophet’s
remains
were
deposited.
The
Khedive
stood
up.
Ismail,
in
1863
AD,
renovated
and
expanded
the
mosque,
except
for
the
minaret,
which
was
completed
in
1878
AD.
The
mosque
was
built
with
red
stone
in
the
Gothic
style,
while
its
minaret
was
built
in
the
style
of
Ottoman
minarets.
It
was
made
in
a
cylindrical
shape,
had
two
courses,
and
ended
with
a
cone.
The
Husseini
scene
consists
of
three
doors
on
the
western
side,
a
door
on
the
tribal
side,
and
another
on
the
sea
side,
leading
to
a
courtyard
containing
a
place
for
ablution.
In
the
year
1939
AD,
King
Farouk
I
ordered
the
repair
of
the
floor
of
the
Dome
of
the
Mashhad
and
furnished
it
with
marble.
The
Department
for
the
Preservation
of
Arab
Antiquities
took
this
opportunity
to
verify
the
presence
of
a
wooden
coffin
that
it
found
deposited
in
a
room
under
the
copper
compartment
in
the
middle
of
the
dome,
accessible
through
two
small
holes
in
the
floor,
and
which
was
transported
to
the
House
of
Antiquities.
Arabic
to
display.
The
coffin
was
made
of
teak
wood
imported
from
the
East
Indies.
Its
face
and
sides
were
divided
into
rectangles
gathered
in
the
form
of
geometric
shapes,
inside
which
were
fillings
decorated
with
delicate
floral
decorations.
The
inscriptions
on
the
sides
of
this
coffin
were
engraved
with
Qur’anic
verses,
and
there
is
no
text
among
them
indicating
the
date
of
its
manufacture
or
the
name
of
the
one
who
ordered
it
to
be
made.
However,
the
spirit
and
style
of
the
decorations,
the
base
of
the
inscriptions,
the
combination
of
the
Kufic
and
Naskh
scripts,
and
its
comparison
with
the
coffin
of
Imam
al-Shafi’i
made
in
the
year
1178
AD
indicate
that
it
was
made
in
the
Ayyubid
era,
and
it
is
likely
that
the
one
who
commissioned
it
was
Sultan
Saladin.
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