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{{Short description|Mosque in Gaza, Palestine}}
{{Infobox religious building
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| building_name         = Sayed al-Hashim Mosque
| location              = al-Wehda Street, [[Gaza City|Gaza]], [[Gaza Strip]]
| map_type              = Palestine Gaza
| map_caption           = Location within Gaza
| map_size              = 275
| coordinates           = {{coord|31.508056|34.463347|type:landmark_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| religious_affiliation = [[Islam]]
| region                = [[Levant]]
| country               = [[Palestine]]
| province              = [[Gaza Strip]]
| district              = [[Gaza Governorate]]
| functional_status     = Active
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| architecture_type     = [[Mosque]]
| architecture_style    = [[Mamluk architecture|Mamluk]], [[Ottoman architecture|Ottoman]]
| year_completed        = 12th century CE (originally) <br> 1850 (present-day)
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The '''Sayed al-Hashim Mosque''' ({{langx|ar|مسجد السيد هاشم}} ''Masjid as-Sayed Hāshim''; {{langx|tr|Seyyid Haşim Camii}}) is one of the largest and oldest mosques in [[Gaza City|Gaza]], [[Palestine]], located in the [[al-Daraj|ad-Darrāj Quarter]] of the [[Gaza City#Old City|Old City]], off of al-Wehda Street. The tomb of [[Hashim ibn Abd al-Manaf]], [[Muhammad]]'s great grandfather who died in Gaza during a trading voyage, is located under the dome of the mosque according to [[Muslim]] tradition.<ref name="TWP"/>

A mosque and [[hostel]] have been located at the present site since at least the 12th century CE. The mosque had a ''[[madrasa]]'' and was a center for religious learning in the 19th and parts of the 20th century. The mosque was named after Hashim. The Sayed al-Hashim Mosque was frequented by visiting traders from [[Egypt]], [[Arabia]] and [[Morocco]].<ref name="TWP">{{Cite web| url=http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=1911&ed=130&edid=130 |title=Mosque of Sayyed Hashim - Gaza |website=thisweekinpalestine.com |date=October 2006 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=9 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209211750/http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=1911&ed=130&edid=130 | via=An excerpt from ''Palestine: A Guide'', Interlink Publishers, 2005.}}</ref>

The existing mosque was built in 1850, on the orders of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] sultan [[Abdülmecid I|Abdul Majid]]. Some of the older materials used in the mosque’s construction were taken from the mosques and other buildings destroyed by [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s troops. The original Ottoman minaret was rebuilt in 1903 and the north and west aisles were also built during the same period. The mausoleum of Hashim is located in the north-western corner of the mosque.<ref name="TWP"/> The mosque was damaged as a result of an Israeli airstrike in October 2023, during the [[Gaza war]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saber |first=Indlieb Farazi |title=A ‘cultural genocide’: Which of Gaza’s heritage sites have been destroyed? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/14/a-cultural-genocide-which-of-gazas-heritage-sites-have-been-destroyed |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of mosques in the State of Palestine]]

==References==
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[[Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1850]]
[[Category:12th-century mosques in Asia]]
[[Category:Mosques completed in the 1850s]]
[[Category:Mosques in Gaza City]]
[[Category:Daraj Quarter]]