النبي يحيى. يحيى

Here lies the door of which I have just spoken: mouldings divide it into compartments; it is provided with hinges worked in the thickness of the block which composes the stone The mosque was restored and mostly rebuilt during the 19th century while was under rule
The in Damascus also claims to hold John's body They are only seen by introducing a light across three small openings in the wall of the chamber

On the east are three to and aisles, the central apse is 30 feet in diameter, equal to the width of the nave.

البداية والنهاية/الجزء الثاني/بيان سبب قتل يحيى عليه السلام
records that "his disciples came and took away [John's] body and buried it"
يحيى
Prison of John the Baptist [ ] Local tradition in both the and communities of the area notes that also contained the site of the prison of John the Baptist and is the place where he was beheaded; however this was a separate church in the old city and is a claim refuted by the account of the first century historian , which recorded the site of the beheading as , across the , some 80—90 miles away
قصة يحيى عليه السلام في القرآن
Descent is managed by a staircase of fifteen steps ; then, after crossing a landing once closed by a monolithic door, you go down two steps, and find yourself in a crypt formerly paved with small slabs of in different colours, forming a sort of mosaic
John the Baptist, and the others those of the prophets Obadiah and Elisha
In 1870, the French explorer visited the place, and noted: "At the western extremity of the monument rises a sanctuary crowned by a little pierced with narrow windows, which admit a feeble light into the which it covers History [ ] Byzantine church [ ] The Nabi Yahya Mosque stands on the site identified since times as the place where John the Baptist's body was buried by his followers

The interior length is 158 feet, the breadth 74 feet; the west wall is 10 feet thick, the north wall 8 feet, the south wall 4 feet.

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البداية والنهاية/الجزء الثاني/بيان سبب قتل يحيى عليه السلام
According to an ancient tradition, one of these compartments is the tomb of St
كيف كان النبي يحيي العشر الأواخر من رمضان؟
This crypt, of small extent, contains a chamber divided into three parallel arched , with cut stones regularly worked between them
النبي يحيى بن زكريا
There were six , of which the second from the east is larger, probably once supporting a dome
" Ottoman rebuilding [ ] A sign in the mosque, 2018 In 1892, ordered the rebuilding of part of the site Crusader cathedral [ ] The ruins of the crusader cathedral in the 1840s, from
Nabi Yahya refers to John the Baptist in the It is constructed of large buttressed walls

It is located in the central square of the village.

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كيف مات النبي يحيى عليه السلام
Within its courtyard, a stairway in the small domed building leads down into a cave
نبي الله يحيى عليه الصلاة والسلام
A church was erected on the spot of the tomb during the Byzantine era
النبي يحيى بن زكريا
" Later, in the 1870s, excavated the place, which it described in its Survey of Western Palestine as "a mere shell, the greater part of the roof and piers gone, and over the crypt a modern has been built