Abu Bakar Masjed

The Abu Bakr Mosque or 'Mosque of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq' located towards the south-west side of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, is one of the oldest mosques in Medina, Saudi Arabia.It is being said that it was a site where Muhammad used to offer Eid prayers and the same tradition was continued by Abu Bakr after Muhammad's death.

The square shaped mosque with the length of its side in nine meters was built with black basalt stones, and painted white from inside with a dome above it whose height is 12 meters. It has a rectangular courtyard whose length is 13 meter and width is 6 meters, and a minaret which is 15 meters high.The small mosque has one dome and one minaret has a sinlge and very ornate dome. The single minaret of the mosque retains its Ottoman structure and closely resembles to the Bab as-Salam Minaret of Masjid Nabawi. The minaret has a muazzin's balcony near the center. On the outside the dome of the small mosque is built with ribbed-style architecture.