Tradition identifies the prophet Yushu, al-Nabi Yusha' (النبي يوشع), with Joshua, despite the fact that according to Tanach, Joshua was buried in Samaria, in Timnat-Serah or Timnat Jerez, where he also has a maqam in his honor; "And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah that the mountain of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash "(Iis.Nav.24: 30).
Whatever it was, this place in the mountains of Naftali is still revered by both Muslims and Jews. The shrine was surveyed by the British School of Archaeology in 1994 CE, who described it as rectangular structure formed around a courtyard, aligned north-south, which was entered through a gateway on the north end. The principal rooms were at the south end of the courtyard, with two major domed chambers, of which the west chamber was found to be the oldest in the whole shrine complex.
Alternative traditional sites for the Prophet's tomb are situated in Turkey (the shrine on Joshua's Hill, Istanbul), Jordan (an-Nabi Yusha' bin Noon, a Sunni shrine near the city of al-Salt) and Iraq (the Nabi Yusha' shrine of Baghdad).
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Whatever it was, this place in the mountains of Naftali is still revered by both Muslims and Jews. The shrine was surveyed by the British School of Archaeology in 1994 CE, who described it as rectangular structure formed around a courtyard, aligned north-south, which was entered through a gateway on the north end. The principal rooms were at the south end of the courtyard, with two major domed chambers, of which the west chamber was found to be the oldest in the whole shrine complex.
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