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Description
Property Name: Omar Mosque
Inventory No: –
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020
Country (State party): Saudi Arabia
Province: Al Jawf
Town: Dumat Al-Jandal
Geographic coordinates: 29°48’42.94″N 39°52’2.87″E
Historic Period: 7th Century
Year of Construction: Beginning of Islamic Era
Style: –
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Located in the centre of Domat AlJandal city, the importance of Omar’s Mosque stems from its design, as it is reminiscent of the Prophet›s Mosque. Moreover, it is one of the oldest mosques whose layout has remained untouched. The stone minaret of the mosque is located in the southwest corner, and deviates from the qibla wall. The base of the minaret is square-shaped and its stone walls narrow till create a conical shape at an altitude of
12.7meters.
Selection Criteria
i. to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius
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
Archaeological state
References
Commission of Tourism and Heritage