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Description
Property Name: The Great Mosque of Tiberias
Inventory No: 972-2-36
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020-09-03
Country (State party): Palestine
Province: Tiberias
Town: Old city
Geographic coordinates: 32°47’16.14″N
35°32’28.17″E
Historic Period: Ottoman
Year of Construction: 1743
Style: Ottoman
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Closed and used as a storage
Architect: Unknown
Significance
It is located in the northern neighborhood of Lake Tiberias, and it was built by Al-Zahir Al-Omar Al-Zaydani in the eighteenth century AD, and many names are given to it, such as Al-Fawqani Mosque and Al-Zaydani Mosque.
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
The mosque is closed and is in urgent need of restoration. The municipality of Tiberias used the mosque as a warehouse for building materials.
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/