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Description
Property Name: Darwish Pasha Mosque, Dervis Pasa Camii
Inventory No: 963-11-4
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2007-11-05
Country (State party): Syria
Province: Damascus
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 33.509423, 36.30034
Historic Period: Classic Ottoman (1453-1579)
Year of Construction: 1574
Style: Classical Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Darwish Pasha Mosque is one of the Ottoman constructions in the Darwish Pasha complex (al Darwishieh). The complex consists of a mosque, a tomb, a madrasa, three public fountains, and the Khan al Harir. These constructions radically changed the visual structure of the Tariq al-Sultani, the main ceremonial axis of the city that connected it to the pilgrimage route, giving it an Ottoman character.
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
iv. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history
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, in September 2010, the Syrian Ministry of Endowments completed the extensive restoration and repair work in it, after it took about two years.
References
Burns, Ross. Monuments of Syria: an historical guide. London; New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1999.
Kafesçioglu Çigdem. “In the Image of Rum”: Ottoman Architectural Patronage in Sixteenth Century Aleppo and Damascus”. In Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, XVI, 70-96. Koninklijke Brill NV, Syria, 1999.
Sauvaget, Jean, Les Monuments historiques de Damas, Beirut, 1932.
Ministry of Tourism of Syria: http://www.syriatourism.org/
Archnet Web Site: http://archnet.org