The Khamis Mosque is one of Bahrain’s treasures!
Detailed and comprehensive tourist information and guides for the Kingdom of Bahrain covering historic sites as Bahrain Portugese, Arad, Riffa forts, Khamis Mosque, Barbar and Diraz Temples, Houses and Burial Mounds. As a result, there are several recognized world recognized sites of historical antiquity for the visitor and tourist to view, and be given the opportunity to see and appreciate the Kingdom’s glorious past.
The Khamis Mosque is believed to be the first mosque in Bahrain, built during the era of the Umayyad caliph Umar II. The identical twin minarets of this ancient Islamic monument make it easily noticeable as one drives along the Shaikh Salman Road in Khamis. The Khamis Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in the Arab world. Believed to be built in 692 AD, it was restored in the 11th century.
Local narrators say that it was built during the reign of the 8th Omayyad Caliph Omar bin Abdul Aziz (99-101 Hijra) (717-720 A.D.). Bahrain continued to play its cultural and economic role throughout the different Islamic eras until it became the target of foreign ambitions. The physique of east minaret, that was constructed from the same knife edge for writing by worsening dated minaret, from the period between promotion-1400-1600.
The diameter of the western minaret is a little bigger than that of the eastern minaret. The staircases of the two minarets are inside in the form of a screw-like column on which there is a spiral staircase which stretch 91 steps upwards in the western minaret and 72 steps in the eastern minaret, both of which lead to the minaret balcony. The Kufic inscriptions on its walls and the ancient arches which frame its twin minarets make the Khamis Mosque popular with photographers, historians and religious alike.
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