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Description
Property Name: Mohammed Al Amin Mosque
Inventory No: 961-1-1
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-09-01
Country (State party): Lebanon
Province: Beirut
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 33° 53′ 42.78″ N
35° 30′ 22″ E
Historic Period: 21st century, 1st half
Year of Construction: 2002-2005
Style: Contemporary
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
The new construction built by the former Lebanese Rafik Hariri is a Sunni Mosque. This 10.000 square-meter mosque in which Rafik Hariri is buried was built in 2002. It is a blue-domed structure with four towering minarets in Ottoman style. Crystal chandeliers and oriental carpets are the distinguishing elements of the interior of the mosque. The interior walls are decorated with Koranic verses.
Selection Criteria
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 new construction is in good condition.
In the 19th century, a Zawiya (prayer corner) was built on this site. Decades of preparation to obtain sufficient land adjacent to the old Zawiya led finally to the building of the new mosque. It was inaugurated in 2008.
Open to visit and prayers.
References
Salam-Liebich, Hayat. The Architecture of the Mamluk City of Tripoli, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1983.
Tadmuri, Omar Abdel Salam; Salame-Sarkis, Hassan. Tripoli the Old City: monuments survey-mosques and madrasas: a sourcebook of maps and architectural drawings.
Website of Archnet, http://archnet.org