Al-Khadra Mosque built

1288 CE.

Shown on the map at 32.212°, 35.271°.

The Al-Khadra Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الخضرة, romanized: Masjid al-Khadra, lit. 'the Green Mosque') also known as Hizn Sidna Yaq'ub Mosque (trans. Sadness of our Lord Jacob), is a mosque situated on the lower slopes of Mount Gerizim in the southwestern quarter of the Old City of Nablus in the West Bank of the State of Palestine. The mosque is rectangular in shape, and its minaret is 30 metres (98 ft) tall.

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