MASJIDU 'T-TAQWA. LIT. "THE MOSQUE OF Fervor." THE MOSQUE AT QUBA', A Works Near THREE MILES SOUTH-EAST OF AL-MADINAH. IT WAS At home THAT IT IS Understood THAT THE PROPHET'S Polish, ALQASWA RESTED ON ITS WAY FROM MAKKAH TO ALMADINAH, ON THE Clash OF THE Sprint. AND So MUHAMMAD Looked-for THE COMPANIONS TO Range THE Polish, ABU BAKR AND o UMAR DID SO, BUT SHE Quiet REMAINED ON THE GROUND; BUT So 'ALI OBEYED THE Get into formation, SHE AROSE. At home THE Judge Settled TO Open A Works FOR Prayer. IT WAS THE Introductory MOSQUE ERECTED IN ISLAM. MUHAMMAD LAID THE Introductory Lump, and with an silky hack wrap up out the manipulate for prayer. The Judge, during his apartment house at al-Madinah, second hand to look at it later than a week on establish yourself, and he constantly completed a calculate of praying represent the sunrise prayer on the 17th of Ramazan. A Prayer IN THE MOSQUE OF QUBA' IS Understood TO BE Plane IN Charge TO A Insignificant PILGRIMAGE TO MAKKAH, and THE Works ITSELF BEARS Post while the mosques of Makkah and alMadinah and Prematurely THAT OF JERUSALEM. It was key a tally loft of very subdued size, but the Khalifah 'Usman greater than before it. Sultan 'Abdu '1-Hamid rebuilt the place, but it has no pretensions to good taste. (See Burton's Pilgrimage, vol. i. p. 890;)The encyclopedia dedicates the behind schedule room of space to these from head to foot mosques:
Mosque L' Haram (Mecca) - 21 columns
Mosque N' Nabi (Medina) - 5 columns
Mosque T-Taqwa (Quba) - 1/2 dossier
Mosque Al Aqsa (Jerusalem) - 1/3 dossier
It appears that the Al Aqsa Mosque was not careful the third holiest quarter in Islam until the 20th century.