Namera Mosque.. Here is the sermon of the Noble Prophet in the Farewell Pilgrimage

The Namira Mosque was built in the Sha’ar of Arafat, and it is the same place where the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, sermons the Farewell Pilgrimage in the tenth year of the Hijrah. The sun of the ninth day of Dhul-Hijjah.

The mosque is known by several names, such as the Ibrahim Mosque, Arnah and Arafa, and one of the accounts says that it took the name “Arafa Mosque” from a village located outside the Arafa area, where the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, resided there, then walked from it to the center of Arafa and prayed there and preached to the people.

Location

The mosque was built in the place where the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, delivered the sermon in Jabal al-Rahma, within the region of Arafat. Standing in it because it is not part of Arafat.

The area of ​​the Namira Mosque is more than 110,000 square meters, and it can accommodate about 350,000 worshippers. Its length from east to west is 340 meters, and its width from north to south is 240 meters, and from the back there is a shaded area of ​​8,000 square meters.

Date

It is likely that the mosque was built in the middle of the second century AH at the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate (in the seventh century AD), and it received the attention of the sultans throughout Islamic history, so Al-Jawad Al-Isfahani built it in the year 559 AH (1163 AD) during the Fatimid rule.

Then it was rebuilt in the Mamluk era by order of Sultan Al-Malik Al-Muzaffar Saif Al-Din in 843 AH (1439 AD), then Sultan Qaitbay in 884 AH (1479 AD), until its architecture was renewed during the Ottoman era in 1272 AH (1855 AD).

During the era of the Saudi state, it witnessed expansions that reached an area of ​​​​18,000 square meters, and its cost amounted to 337 million Saudi riyals, and thus became the second largest mosque in Makkah Al-Mukarramah by area after the Grand Mosque.

Because of the expansions it went through throughout its history, the front of the mosque became outside Arafat, and its rear part inside Arafat, and to ensure the proper standing of pilgrims within the boundaries of Arafat, guide signs were placed showing the part of the mosque that is not located within the borders of Arafat.

Landmarks

The Namera Mosque has 6 minarets, 3 domes, and each minaret is 60 meters high. It has 10 main entrances with 64 doors, and it has an external radio room equipped for the live broadcast of the sermon on the Day of Arafa and the Zuhr and Asr prayers.