Al-Bakiriyya Mosque

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File:Mosque of Bakeereya 1926.jpg
Al-Bakiriyya in 1926 year.
Bakiriyya Dom. 1988 year

Bakiriyya Dom is a mosque constructed in Sana'a around 1596-97 by the Ottoman governor of Yemen, Hasan Pasha.[1] The mosque fell into disrepair after the Ottomans were driving out of Yemen in 1626 but was fully restored when the Ottomans recaptured Sana'a in 1878.[2]

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