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Description
Property Name: Zawiye al shathliya in Tarshiha
Inventory No: 972-2-38
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020-09-04
Country (State party): Palestine
Province : District of Acre
Town: Tarshiha
Geographic coordinates: 33° 0’41.19″N
35°16’5.68″E
Historic Period: Ottoman
Year of Construction: 1862
Style: Ottoman
Original Use: Zawiye
Current Use: Zawiye
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Al-Zawia El-Shadlia Al-Yishtria, which has an area of about 4,200 square meters, is located in the Al-Majadala neighborhood, to the west of the Crusader castle and on its eastern part. The hospice is built on the remains of the southwestern tower of the castle. Al- Taqiyya was built on land belonging to the Ottoman Empire, and it contains eight houses. In 1867, the place and its residences were granted to the Chadli El-Yishrti Endowment. The houses were simple, some were one-story and the other two or three stories, built of limestone.
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
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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/