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Description
Property Name: Caesarea Mosque, Haifa
Inventory No: 972-2-29
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020-08-25
Country (State party): Palestine
Province: Haifa
Town: Caesarea
Geographic coordinates: 32°30’3.91″N
34°53’29.98″E
Historic Period: Umayyad
Year of Construction: 683-692
Style: Umayyad
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Israeli pub
Architect: Unknown
Significance
The Great Mosque was built in Caesarea during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik Ibn Marawan. It was restored during the Mamluk era, in the nineteenth century by Bosnian citizens.
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 mosque has carried out extensive restoration work to transform it into an oriental restaurant that includes a tavern.
References
Yusuf, Faraj Allah Ahmad. 2011. Mosques of Palestine: under the Zionist occupation. Dar Al-Qalam, 2011.