The Prophet's Mosque, in Medina, Saudi Arabia, was begun in 622 CE, after the Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina in the event known as the Hijra. The first building was a simple structure of palm trunks and mud bricks adjoining Muhammad's house, and it served as a place of prayer, a community center and a seat of government. After the Prophet's death in 632 he was buried in the adjacent room, and the tomb is now beneath the Green Dome. The mosque was enlarged by caliphs and sultans over the centuries, notably under the Umayyads, the Mamluks and the Ottomans, and extensively by the Saudi state in modern times. It is the second holiest site in Islam after the Great Mosque of Mecca.
Before and after
- from April 614 CE to May 614 CESasanian conquest of Jerusalem
- from 618 CE to 907 CETang dynasty
- from 622 CE to 750 CEMuslim conquests
- 622 CEConstruction of Quba Mosque
- 622 CEConstruction of Prophet's Mosque
- from 13 September 622 CE to 27 September 622 CEHijra
- 12 March 624 CEBattle of Badr
- April 625 CEBattle of Sarus
- 9 January 626 CEBirth of Husayn ibn Ali
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