As-Sahabah Mosque
| As-Sahabah Mosque | |
|---|---|
Arabic: مسجد الصحابة | |
The mosque in 2009 | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Sunni Islam |
| Ecclesiastical or organisational status | Mosque and cemetery |
| Status | Active |
| Adjacent 7th-century Muslim cemetery | |
| Location | |
| Location | Derna, Cyrenaica |
| Country | Libya |
Location of the mosque and cemetery in Libya | |
| Geographic coordinates | 32°45′41″N 22°38′33″E / 32.7613837°N 22.6423723°E |
| Architecture | |
| Type | Mosque architecture |
| Style | Modernist |
| Completed | 1975 |
| Specifications | |
| Dome(s) | Many (uncountable) |
| Minaret(s) | Two |
| Shrine(s) | Three |
The As-Sahabah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الصحابة) is a Sunni Islam mosque and adjacent cemetery, located at the Maydan Al-Sahaba Square in the city of Derna, Libya. The mosque was built in the 1970s on the site of a 7th-century cemetery containing the graves of the Sahaba who were slain by the Byzantine armies during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. Within the grounds of the mosque is an attached cemetery containing the tomb of Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi and at least seventy Muslim soldiers involved in the Battle of Mamma.