








Al-Sahla Mosque (Arabic: مسجد السهلة), also known as al-Suhayl Mosque ( مسجد السهیل), Banū Ẓafar Mosque ( مسجد بنی ظفر) and ʿAbd al-Qays Mosque ( مسجد عبدالقیس), is one of the best-known Islamic mosques built in the 1st/7th century by some Arab tribes of Kufa, about two kilometers northwest of the Great Mosque of Kufa. The mosque is one of the oldest mosques associated with Imam al-Mahdi (a), the twelfth Shiite Imam. There is a place (so-called "maqam") in the mosque attributed to Imam al-Mahdi (a), and on some accounts, this mosque is where Imam al-Mahdi (a) will live after his reappearance. In the Shiite culture, al-Sahla Mosque one the important mosques. In different parts of the mosque's courtyard, some mihrabs are built and are called after religious leaders, such as maqams (stances) of Imam al-Sajjad (a), Imam al-Sadiq (a), Ibrahim (a), Idris (a) and Khidr (a).








