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The Mosque of Sayyida Sukayna or Mosque of Sayyida Sakina is a historic mosque in Cairo, Egypt. According to an apocryphal tradition, it contains the tomb of Sakina, a daughter of Husayn. The current building dates from 1904. It is located in the historic al-Khalifa neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Cairo's Southern Cemetery.
History
= Origins
=The mosque is named after to Amna bint al-Hussein ibn Ali, a descendant of Muhammad. She was born in the 7th century and her mother was Rubab bint Imra al-Qais, a daughter of the chief of the Banu Kalb tribe. Rubab nicknamed her Sakina or Sukayna (Arabic: سكينة, lit. 'tranquility, peace'). Historians have differed on whether her tomb in Cairo is in fact her true resting place. Those who acknowledge it rely on the following story: she was betrothed to Al-Asbagh ibn Abdul Aziz and sent to Egypt by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, but she found out that he had cheated, so she went back.
= Construction history
=A mosque was built over the site of the tomb in 1760 through the patronage of Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda, a mamluk official. It was replaced by a new mosque built in 1904 by Khedive Abbas II in a neo-Mamluk style.
References
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- Mosque of Sayyida Sukayna
- City of the Dead (Cairo)
- Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya
- Al-Khalifa District
- List of Historic Monuments in Cairo
