Sidi Yaqut Al-Arsh Mosque
The Sidi Yaqut Al-Arsh Mosque is a mosque, located in the Anfoushi neighbourhood of Alexandria, on the north coast of Egypt. It is named after Yaqut Al Arsh, an imam who lived in Alexandria during the 13th century.
The mosque is located adjacent to both the Al-Busiri Mosque and the Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque, and all three mosques face the same central sahn.
History
After Yaqut's death in 1331 CE, he was buried next to the mosque of his teacher and father-in-law, the famous Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi, and next to what then used to be the zawiya of Al-Busiri.In 1934, King Fouad I ordered the construction of a sahn for an expanded Abu al-Abbas Mosque, a new mosque built on the site of Busiri's zawiya, and a new mosque built on Yaqut's tomb. All the buildings of the area were extensively renovated and built by Mario Rossi, an Italian architect, who was involved in planning the design and decor of the mosques until the completion of the entire project in 1943. In 2023, as part of a larger campaign to renovate the historic mosques in the area, the mosque underwent extensive repair works.