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Description
Property Name: Al Mansouri Mosque
Inventory No: 961-6-16
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-09-02
Country (State party): Lebanon
Province: Tripoli
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 34° 26′ 5.54″ N
35° 50′ 32.59″ E
Historic Period: Mamluk
Year of Construction: unknown
Style: Mamluk
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Al Mansouri Mosque is one of the mosque near the citadel of Tripoli. With its colorfully decorated portal and the stucco decoration inside, it is one of the most elaborate Mamluk mosque in Tripoli.
Selection Criteria
iv. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history
State of Preservation
– It is across from el-Chamsiyah. Its founder is unknown. Its door is one of the most beautiful Mamluk doors. Inside the madrasah, there are plaster and marble ornamentation, as well as Koranic inscriptions and the emblem of the butler, “The Cup”. Its façade is embellished with lines of piebald Stones.
No valid info for today’s usage.
References
Salam-Liebich, Hayat. The Architecture of the Mamluk City of Tripoli, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1983.
Tadmuri, Omar Abdel Salam; Salame-Sarkis, Hassan. Tripoli the Old City: monuments survey-mosques and madrasas: a sourcebook of maps and architectural drawings.
Website of Archnet, http://archnet.org