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Mosque built decades after death of Prophet Muhammad found near Sea of Galilee
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A reconstruction of the latest phase of the mosque, which collapsed during a 1068 earthquake.
The remains of one of the earliest mosques on record, built just a generation after the Prophet Muhammad died, have been found near the Sea of Galilee in Israel, according to archaeologists at Hebrew University. 
Archaeologists found the foundational remnants of the roughly 1,350-year-old mosque beneath another mosque that had been built on top of it in Tiberias, a city in northern Israel. 
We know about many early mosques that were founded right in the beginning of the Islamic period, excavation leader Katia Cytryn-Silverman, a specialist in Islamic archaeology at Hebrew University in Israel, told the Associated Press (AP). Other early mosques, including the The Prophet s Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, built in A.D. 622, a ....

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