The Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque, also called the Blue Mosque, is a Sunni mosque in downtown Beirut, next to the Maronite Cathedral of Saint George. Azmi Fakhoury designed it in a style the article calls similar to Ottoman architecture. It holds up to 6,400 worshippers and has five light blue tiled domes and four minarets.
A 19th-century zawiya stood on the site until 1975. A donation from Prime Minister Rafic Hariri funded the project. The foundation was laid in November 2002, and the mosque was inaugurated in 2008. During construction, archaeologists uncovered part of the Roman Decumanus Maximus. Hariri was assassinated in 2005 and buried next to the mosque.
The Beirut explosions of August 4, 2020 badly damaged it, shattering chandeliers and windows. The infobox gives a maximum height of 236 feet (72 m), but the lead paragraph says the minaret roof is 65 m, so the sources conflict.
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