سن 1805عیسوی میں جب بن سعود مدینہ پر قابض ھوا تو اُس کے پیروں کاروں نے جنّتُ الاالبقیع اور مسجد نبویؐ میں تقریباً تمام مزاراتِ انبیا علیہ السلام اور اصحابہ کرامؓ روند کر تباہ کر دیے۔ لیکن گنبدِ خضرا کو باوجود پوری کوشِش کے نہ گرا سکے-
When bin Saud took Medina in 1805, his followers, the Wahhabis, demolished nearly every tomb dome in Medina in order to prevent their veneration,[6] and the Green Dome is said to have narrowly escaped the same fate.[7] Prophet Mohammed 's tomb was stripped of its gold and jewel ornaments, but the dome was preserved either because of an unsuccessful attempt to demolish its hardened structure, or because some time ago Ibn Abd al-Wahhab wrote that he did not wish to see the dome destroyed despite his aversion to people praying at the tomb.[6] Similar events took place in 1925 when the Saudi ikhwans retook—and this time managed to keep—the city.[8][9][10][11] In the Wahabi interpretation of Islam, the veneration of tombs and places thought to possess supernatural powers was an offense against tawhid.[12]
After the foundation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, the mosque underwent several major modifications. In 1951 King Ibn Saud (1932–1953) ordered demolitions around the mosque to make way for new wings to the east and west of the prayer hall, which consisted of concrete columns with pointed arches. Older columns were reinforced with concrete and braced with copper rings at the top. The Suleymaniyya and Majidiyya minarets were replaced by two minarets in Mamluk revival style. Two additional minarets were erected to the northeast and northwest of the mosque.
