Al-Hamadiyya Mosque

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Al-Hamadiyya Mosque ( _ar. مسجد الحمادية "Masjid al-Hamadiyya") is the largest mosque in the Palestinian town of al-Khader, west of Bethlehem and serves the majority of the town's residents. The mosque was built in the early 1400s and was restored by the town's residents in the 1990s. [http://www.imemc.org/article/52186 Mosque near Bethlehem burned down by Israeli settlers] Saed, Bannoura. International Middle East Media Center. 2008-01-02.]

According to the International Middle East Media Center, in 2008, a group of Israeli settlers from Efrata and El'azar torched the mosque using stolen beehives as fuel. The mosque's imam and local Muslim leadership requested help from the Palestinian National Authority to help rebuild the mosque and to protect al-Khader from future attacks.

ee also

*Mosque of Omar (Bethlehem)

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