Qibla in Language
is the destination
But in terminology
It is the destination that Muslims face in their prayers, and it is the Holy Kaaba
The story of changing the Qiblah in brief
Prayer was imposed on the Messenger - may God bless him and grant him peace - and on the Muslims on the night of the Night Journey and Mi’raj, this was five years before the Prophet’s migration, and God Almighty then commanded that the Holy House be the qibla of Muslims, so the Messenger - may God bless him and grant him peace - prayed facing the Holy House, and it was the desire of the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - to pray facing the Kaaba, the Messenger - may God bless him and grant him peace - came as an adherent of the religion of Abraham, peace be upon him. Therefore, the Messenger - peace be upon him - wanted his Qibla to be the Holy Kaaba, He even stood behind the Kaaba between the two pillars and faced the rock of Jerusalem and prayed, then he migrated to Medina, He stayed there for sixteen months, turning his face towards the Levant, and he prayed a lot and insisted on God Almighty, by making the Holy Kaaba the qibla for Muslims until God Almighty permitted that and answered his prayer.
Qiblatain Mosque The Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace - was visiting one of the tribes and began the noon prayer, when the command came down to him to change the qiblah, he turned it while kneeling, so the mosque in which he was praying was called the Mosque of the Two Qiblahs, It is the Bani Salamah Mosque, and the news reached the Muslims in Quba’ until dawn the next day.
The location of the mosque
The mosque is located on the plateaus of Harrat al-Waira, called Harrat al-Gharbiyya, in the Beni Salamah region on the northwestern road, Medina in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Qiblatain Mosque is approximately 4 kilometers away from the Prophet’s Mosque.
The description of the architectural of the mosque
The mosque consists of two floors and contains designated places for women to pray
It has a place designated for memorizing the Holy Qur’an, and the mosque was built in the authentic Islamic architectural style.
The area of the mosque is 3920 square meters.
- The number of domes is 2, the first with a diameter of 8 meters and the second with a diameter of 7 meters, and the length of each of them is approximately 18.8 meters.
- Number of muezzins: 2.
The Qiblatain Mosque is famous for its bright white colour.
In the odd custom, Sunan al-Tirmidhi explained by al-Kashmiri: As for the place for turning the qiblah, it was said that the Prophet’s Mosque, but the investigation is that it is the Mosque of the Two Qiblahs, and the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, deviated from the Holy House to the House of God in prayer and changed its place, and so did the Companions.