Sidi Bishr Mosque

Sidi Bishr Mosque
مسجد سيدي بشر
Religion
AffiliationIslam
DistrictSidi Bishr
Location
LocationAlexandria
CountryEgypt
Geographic coordinates31°15′42″N 29°59′07″E / 31.2616°N 29.9853°E / 31.2616; 29.9853
Architecture
Completedlate 19th century

Sidi Bishr Mosque (Arabic: مسجد سيدي بشر, romanized: Masjid Sīdī Bishr) is an Egyptian mosque in the Sidi Bishr neighborhood of Alexandria. It is named after Sheikh Bishr Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ubayd Allah Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Bishr Al-Jawhari, a late 5th-century to early 6th-century AH (late 11th-century to early 12th-century CE) sheikh who lived in Alexandria after coming from the Maghreb.