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Description
Property Name: Shafei Historical Mosque
Inventory No: –
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020
Country (State party): Saudi Arabia
Province : Makkah
Town: Makkah
Geographic coordinates: 21°29’10.24″N 39°11’14.86″E
Historic Period: 13th century
Year of Construction: 1251
Style: Early Islamic
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
It is one of the oldest mosques remaining in the governorate of Jeddah, and it is located in Al-Mazloum neighborhood and is known as the Al-Ateeq Mosque.
It is possible that the construction of the mosque dates back to the year 646 AH / 1251AD. The minaret is the oldest part of it. As for the rest of the mosque, it was rebuilt in 940 AH / 1533 CE.
Selection Criteria
i. to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius
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
Well preserved. Restored by Al-Turath foundation
References
Commission of Tourism and Heritage