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Description
Property Name: Great Mosque of Jenin, Jenin
Inventory No: 972-2-26
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020-08-17
Country (State party): Palestine
Province: Jenin
Town: Jenin
Geographic coordinates: 32°27’43.94″N
35°18’5.13″E
Historic Period: Ottoman
Year of Construction: 1566 AD
Style: Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
It is one of the most prominent historical landmarks in the Islamic civilization in Palestine. This mosque is one of the oldest Ottoman architectural masterpieces in the country. The great Mosque of Jenin, also known as Fatima Khatun Mosque, is a historic mosque located in Jenin in the northern West Bank, Palestine. It was built in 1566 AD by Fatima Khatun, the wife of Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, the Bosnian governor of Damascus during the reign of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
Selection Criteria
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
iii. to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
In the year 1799 of the invasion of the French by Napoleon Bonaparte, who bombed the city with a catapult and the people confronted him in a battle known as the Battle of the Prairie, and Napoleon hit one of the eastern pillars of the Great Mosque and caused damage to it. In the year 1321 AH / 1903 CE, Mustafa bin Baqi restored the mosque, added a new band to it, and paved its yard.
References
Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities website: http://palestinecabinet.gov.ps/