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Tawasul – SPA:
The historic Jawatha Mosque in Al-Hofuf has a great position in the conscience of Muslims in general, and the people of Al-Ahsa in particular, as it is the second mosque in Islam where Friday prayers are offered after the Friday Mosque.
The “Jawatha” mosque represents a historical weight and a civilizational, cultural and Islamic legacy of the Kingdom in general and the Eastern Region in particular, whose bases from that period of time still exist to the present day, and some of them have eroded through the successive events on the Arabian Peninsula.
The mosque is located 20 km north-east of the city of Al-Hofuf, and this mosque was built by the “beginning of the Islamic era” by the Banu Abdul Qais and their allies, Banu Tamim and Bakr Ibn Wael, the residents of Al-Ahsa – at the time.
They were the first to voluntarily embrace Islam, and the ruler of Abdul Qais al-Mundhir bin Ayed, nicknamed Al-Ashajj, hastened as soon as he learned
With the appearance of the message in Medina, a messenger was dispatched to clarify the matter, and with their certainty, all of them converted to Islam in the seventh year of the Hijra and established the Jawatha Mosque.
And Jawatha was mentioned in historical books due to its importance, as Al-Hamdani mentioned it in describing the Arabian Peninsula, as well as Al-Bakri, and it was famous in books of history, geography and literature in the city of prosperity.
It was known that Jawatha was a commercial center that came to commercial caravans and returned from them loaded with goods of dates, agricultural products and perfumes. It was a commercial market for the “strategic location of Al-Ahsa”. Trade exchanged in the south and north of the Arabian Peninsula and the Mesopotamian Valley and further afield, for its location on the old mobile commercial caravan road from the coast to the middle The Arabian Peninsula, and its development continued during the early Islamic periods.
Sheikh Hamad Al-Jasser says in his book “The Geographical Dictionary of the Eastern Region” and some of the sayings of the Sheikh of historians Jawad al-Ramadan: The disappearance of the effects of the mosque is due to the encroachment of sand even though it is on a high point, indicating that the length of the mosque is 20 cubits and its width is 10 cubits, and there is an eye on the western side. Jawatha, and in the southwest, the remains of a cemetery believed to be for a number of the Companions, who were martyred in the wars of apostasy in the 14th year of the Hijra.
The Heritage Charitable Foundation restored the mosque as part of the “Program for the Reconstruction of Historic Mosques” that the Foundation started in cooperation with the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and Endowments, and then the General Authority for Tourism and National Heritage joined it.
The restoration and restoration of the collapsed parts was completed in 1430 AH, according to a historical architectural study of the mosque, to determine the quality of the roofs used in the original construction, and the shape of the doors and windows, and after that it rebuilt the collapsed parts of the mosque, and the Charitable “Reconstruction of Historical Mosques Program” aims to restore them and document their history. And bring back life and pray to it.
Thus, the mosque in the formation of its design is a basic nucleus for the houses of worship in Islam because of the presence of the prayer house, which contains three corridors and the axis of the direction of the qibla with the direction of the Kaaba, the presence of the mihrab, and the remnants of the place of the pulpit and the marquee of the hand.
The site has been developed by establishing the tourist city of Guatha to represent the mosque as a gateway and historical site for visitors and young people. To introduce them to their Islamic national heritage.