Masjid al-Jinn stands near al-Ma‘la Cemetery in Mecca and is associated with the Qur’anic account of jinn hearing the recitation. Its other name, the Mosque of the Guard, preserves a separate memory of the city’s later civic life.
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Two layers of memory meet at this mosque. Its name connects the place with the Qur’anic account of jinn who heard the Prophet Muhammad reciting and accepted the message; the mosque is identified in local historical tradition with that encounter.
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- The mosque is near al-Ma‘la Cemetery in Mecca.
- It is associated with the account in Surah al-Jinn.
- It is also known as the Mosque of the Guard in accounts of its later urban role.
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