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Description
Property Name: Al Jarina Grand Mosque, Al-Nasr Mosque, Haifa Mosque, Haifa
Inventory No: 972-2-28
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020-08-24
Country (State party): Palestine
Province: Haifa
Town: Old Town
Geographic coordinates: 32°48’59.05″N
35° 0’7.96″E
Historic Period: Ottoman
Year of Construction: 1775
Style: Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Al-Jreena Mosque, Al-Nasr Mosque, or the Great Mosque of Haifa, an ancient mosque dating back to the Ottoman era in Palestine. It is located in the old city of Haifa. It is the second oldest mosque in Haifa after the small mosque. In 1901, the Ottomans built a clock tower adjacent to this building as part of several towers erected in honor of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. It was called “Al-Jreena” because of the large stone yard in front of it dedicated to grain intended for export abroad via Haifa Port at that time.
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
The mosque suffered from great neglect after the Nakba in 1948. In 2011, the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage completed a project that lasted for months, during which extensive restoration work was carried out in the mosque. The work was carried out under the supervision of a team from the Al-Aqsa Foundation.
References
Yusuf, Faraj Allah Ahmad. 2011. Mosques of Palestine: under the Zionist occupation. Dar Al-Qalam, 2011.