3-MIN READ Archaeologists Find Remains of 'Rare', Ancient Mosque from 670 AD in Israeli City of Tiberias This 2014 aerial photo shows the site of the Al-Juma (Friday) Mosque in Tiberias, northern Israel. | Image credit: AP This mosque’s foundations, excavated just south of the Sea of Galilee, point to its construction roughly a generation after the death of the Prophet Mohammad, making it one of the earliest Muslim houses of worship to be studied by archaeologists. FOLLOW US ON: Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered the remnants of an early mosque — believed to date to the earliest decades of Islam — during an excavation in the northern city of Tiberias.