© 2012 Wazari Wazir | People Looking at The Replica of Al- Masjid Al-Nabawi Inside Blue  Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque) Istanbul Al-Masjid al-Nabawī (Arabic: اَلْمَسْجِد اَلنَّبَوِي‎ ”Mosque of the Prophet”), often called the Prophet’s Mosque, is a mosque built by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad situated in the city of Medina. It is the second holiest site in Islam (the first being the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca). It was the second mosque built in history and is now one of the largest mosques in the world. After an expansion during the reign of al-Walid I, it also now incoporates the site of the final resting place of Muhammad and early Muslim leaders Abu Bakar and Umar. The site was originally adjacent to Muhammad’s house; he settled there after his Hijra (emigration) to Medina in 622. He…