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Description
Property Name: Great Mosque of Nablus, Al Salahi Mosque, Jami’ Nablus al-Kebir
Inventory No: 972-2-24
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020-08-14
Country (State party): Palestine
Province: Nablus
Town: Nablus/Kasbah district
Geographic coordinates: 32° 13′ 2.89″ N
35° 16′ 5.78″ E
Historic Period: Ayyubid
Year of Construction: 1167
Style: Ayyubid
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
The monument is the oldest and largest mosque in the Palestinian city of Nablus. It is located in the Kasbah neighborhood in the middle of the old city in Nablus, between the northern street leading to the old Khan al-Tijjar and al-Nasr Street near the Aqaba neighborhood and the al-Qaysariya neighborhood. There was a ruined Roman basilica on the site. However, the origin of the current building is a Crusader church, built in 1167 AD and then converted into a mosque after the Al-Salahi conquest of Nablus in 1187 AD and it was named after Saladin Al-Ayyubi.
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 witnessed many renovations, reconstructions and additions during the Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman and modern eras, and it is rich in which the five daily prayers are held.
A large part of it was destroyed in the 1927 earthquake.
References
Nablus Enduring Heritage and Continuing Civilisation: The Revitalization Plan of the Old City. Nablus, PALESTINE, Welfare Association, 2011.
Kalbouneh, Abdullah Saleh. (1992) History of Nablus: 2500 BC-1918 AD
The Revitalization Plan of the Old City Nablus Report: https://www.caue-nord.com/SPASSDATA/ALGEDIM/QOKQWR/D338/D33835.pdf