2017 Sinai mosque attack
Years: 2017 - 2017
At 1:50 PM EET on 24 November 2017, the al-Rawda mosque iwas attacked by roughly forty gunmen during Friday prayers.
The mosque is located in the village of Al-Rawda east of the town of Bir al-Abed in Egypt's North Sinai Governorate.
It is one of the main mosques associated with the Jaririya Sufi order, one of the largest Sufi orders in North Sinai.
The Jaririya order is named for its founder, Sheikh Eid Abu Jarir, who was a member of the Sawarka tribe and the Jarira clan.
The Jarira clan resides in the vicinity of Bir al-Abed.
The attack kills three hundred and eleven people and injures at least one hundred and twenty-two, making it the deadliest attack in Egyptian history.
It is the second-deadliest terrorist attack of 2017, after the Mogadishu bombings on October 14.
The attack is universally condemned by many world leaders and organizations.