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Al-Shadhili Mosque

المخا, Italy

Al-Shadhili Mosque

Al-Shadhili Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الشاذلي or جامع الشاذلي) is a mosque in Mokha, Yemen. Alternatively known as the Grand Mosque of Mokha, it was built by the Sufi scholar Ali ibn Umar al-Shadhili in 1417–1418 (820 AH). According to the mosque's current imam, Nasr Omar Suleiman, it is the oldest conti

nuously used Islamic shrine in western Yemen.

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