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Salimiyya Takiyya

The Salimiyya Takiyya (), also known as the Ibn Arabi Mosque, is a takiyya (Ottoman-era Arabic name for a mosque complex which served as a Sufi convent) in as-Salihiyya, Damascus.

The complex was built over and in the surroundings of Ibn Arabi's tomb in by the Ottoman sultan Selim I upon his return from the conquest of Egypt. The Salimiyya Takiyya is considered to have been "the first Ottoman building in Syria". However, its construction is considered to have followed "a local architectural idiom", which was "neither Mamluk, nor Ottoman" (unlike the later Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, which marked the introduction of the Ottoman architectural style to Damascus).

The Salimiyya Takiyya consists of the Ibn Arabi Mosque and an imaret (or soup kitchen) facing it.

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