Nabi Habeel Mosque built

1599 CE.

Shown on the map at 33.621°, 36.106°.

The Nabi Habeel Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلنَّبِي هَابِيْل, romanized: Masjid An-Nabī Hābīl; Turkish: Nebi Habil Camii), or "Mosque of the Prophet Abel", is a shrine and Islamic mosque dedicated to Habeel, located on the west mountains of Damascus, near the Zabadani Valley, overlooking the villages of the Barada river (Wadi Barada),which are 15, Souk Wadi Barada, Burhlyia, kafer Alawammed, Alhusinia,Der kanon,Kfir Alzayt, Der Mkareen, Ein Alfiga, Ein Alkadra, Bascima,Alashrafia, Jdaida Alshaybani, Alhameh, kudsaia, Dummer in Syria, the Levant.

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