Al Nabi Sheet Mosque
A shrine-mosque venerating the tomb of Seth (Shith), third son of Adam. A modest Ottoman tomb was rebuilt in 1815 as a grand mosque, madrasa and mausoleum by the al-Jalili dynasty that ruled Mosul; destroyed by ISIS in 2014, it was reconstructed in 2022-23.
2 stops to discover
- 1
The Tomb of Seth, Son of Adam
The shrine venerates the tomb of Seth — Shith in Arabic — honoured in Islamic tradition as the third son of Adam, making this one of the oldest sacred associations in a city full of prophets' tombs.
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The Jalili Family's Grand Mosque
A modest Ottoman tomb here was transformed in 1815 by Ahmad Basha al-Jalili into a grand congregational mosque with a madrasa, the prophet's mausoleum and the patron's own tomb — a showpiece of the dynasty that ruled Mosul.
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