Al Jabliya Mosque, Jaffa

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Property Name: Al jabliya Mosque, Jaffa
Inventory No: 972-2-41
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020-09-10
Country (State party): Palestine
Province: Jaffa
Town: Al jabliya
Geographic coordinates: 32° 2’14.92″N
34°44’52.25″E
Historic Period: Ottoman
Year of Construction: 1877
Style: Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown

Significance
Al-Jabaliya Mosque, built by Haji Muhammad al-Sakhafi in al-Jabaliya in 1877. The importance of the mosque is that it is one of the limited number that has been preserved in Haifa

Selection Criteria
i. 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
ii. 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
Recently, the people of Jaffa will take practical steps that have been translated into the restoration of some mosques. Such as the Al-Jabaliya Mosque and Al-Bahr, which is now in an excellent position, given that most mosques were closed in the city after its occupation in 48.

References
Yusuf, Faraj Allah Ahmad. 2011. Mosques of Palestine: under the Zionist occupation. Dar Al-Qalam, 2011.Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities website: http://www.mota.ps/
Archnet website: https://archnet.org/
The Palestinian Encyclopaedia website: https://www.palestinapedia.net/
The Palestinian News & Info Agency website: http://info.wafa.ps/