Masjid Aqsab

Masjid Aqsab مسجد الأقصاب
Neighborhood
Masjid Aqsab Location in Syria
Coordinates: SY 33°31′5″N 36°18′41″E / 33.51806°N 36.31139°ECoordinates: SY 33°31′5″N 36°18′41″E / 33.51806°N 36.31139°E
Country	Syria Syria
Governorate	Damascus Governorate
Subdistrict	Damascus
Municipality	Sarouja
Population (2004)
• Total	14,148

Masjid Aqsab (Arabic: مسجد الأقصاب‎‎) is a neighborhood and district of the Sarouja municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 14,148 in the 2004 census.^[1] The neighborhood was founded during the Mamluk era (14th century) as a suburb of the walled city of Damascus, bordering the Bab al-Salam gate to the south and contiguous with the al-Faradis neighborhood to the west.^[2] It was built around the Aqsab Mosque, after which the neighborhood was named. The mosque purportedly contained the graves of seven Sahaba (companions of Muhammad).^[2] In the 1936 French Mandate census, the neighborhood had a population of 6,900, all Muslims.^[3]

References

1. Damascus Governorate Population 2004 Census
2. Kenney, Ellen V. (2009). Power and Patronage in Medieval Syria: The Architecture and Urban Works of Tankiz Al-Nāṣirī. Middle East Documentation Center. p. 18.
3. Khoury, Philip S. (1993). "Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: The Quarters of Damascus during the French Mandate". In Hourani, Albert. The Modern Middle East. University of California Press. p. 433.