Aidrus Mosque

Aidrus Mosque
Jāmiʿ Al-ʿAydarūs (جَامِع ٱلْعَيْدَرُوْس)
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Branch/tradition	Sunni
Location
Location	Crater Aden, Yemen
Location in Yemen Show map of Yemen Aidrus Mosque (Middle East) Show map of Middle East Aidrus Mosque (West and Central Asia) Show map of West and Central Asia
Geographic coordinates	12°46′20.64″N45°2′11.04″E / 12.7724000°N 45.0364000°E / 12.7724000; 45.0364000
Architecture
Type	Mosque

The Mosque of Abu Bakr al-'Aydarus or Aidrus Mosque (Arabic : جَامِع ٱلْعَيْدَرُوْس‎, romanized: Jāmiʿ Al-ʿAydarūs) is a Sufi mosque in Aidrus Street in Crater, Yemen. One of the principal mosques in Aden, it is named after Abu Bakr al-Aydarus, the wali (saint) of Aden.

Originally built in the late-15th or early-16th century, the mosque underwent rebuilding after being destroyed in 1859. During the 1994 civil war in Yemen, Islamic fundamentalists from North Yemen damaged much of the mosque, burning copies of the Quran and vandalizing tombs in its courtyard. ^[1]

The mosque is featured on some Aden postage stamps, e.g. the 1938 2 anna stamp. ^[2]

See also

• List of mosques in Yemen

References

1. Daniel McLaughlin (2007). Yemen: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 185. ISBN   978-1-84162-212-5 . Retrieved 24 March 2013.
2. Stanley Gibbons Ltd. Stanley Gibbons' Simplified Stamp Catalogue; 24th ed., 1959. London: Stanley Gibbons Ltd.' p. 1