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Property Name: Sinan Pasha Mosque – Al Bahr Mosque (Acre)
Inventory No: 972-2-37
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020-09-03
Country (State party): Palestine
Province: Acre
Town: Old city
Geographic coordinates: 32°55’13.29″N
35° 4’11.71″E
Historic Period: Ottoman
Year of Construction: 1806
Style: Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Al-Mina Mosque, also called Al-Bahr Mosque, was built by Suleiman Pasha Al-Adel in 1806 on the same site as the old Sinan Pasha Mosque. This mosque is located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the city of Acre in northern Palestine, which was built during the Ottoman era. The Jazzar Mosque, which is located near it, is similar in exterior and interior design.
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
Part of the mosque was destroyed by an earthquake, and in 1807 AD, the governor of Acre, Suleiman Pasha, rebuilt it. The Sinan Pasha Mosque was exposed to cracks, and the “Al-Aqsa Foundation” carried out internal and external repair and maintenance work in all the facilities of the mosque. The last restoration work for the mosque’s exterior facades, including the main gate, was on February 5, 2014, with funding from the Turkish ” Mirasımız ” Association.
References
Yusuf, Faraj Allah Ahmad. 2011. Mosques of Palestine: under the Zionist occupation. Dar Al-Qalam, 2011.
Web sources
Archnet website https://archnet.org/
The Palestinian Encyclopaedia website: https://www.palestinapedia.net/
The Palestinian News & Info Agency website: http://info.wafa.ps/