Mosques (Masajid and Jawame’)

Al-Mie’thanah Al-Hamra’a Mosque (the Mosque of the Red Minaret)

Landmark Location: Located in the Al-Saadiyya lane by the line of the red minaret, halfway between the Bustami and Shaddad junctions, and adjacent to the Sheikh Reihan shrine.

Built
940 AH / 1533 CE
Built by
Alaa Al - Din Al - Khalouti Ibn Al - Sheikh Shams Al - Din Mohammed Al - Khalouti
Era
Ottoman

Location relative to Al-Aqsa

Located in the Al-Saadiyya lane by the line of the red minaret, halfway between the Bustami and Shaddad junctions, and adjacent to the Sheikh Reihan shrine. It can reach through the entrance to the gate of the watch or through pain.

Reason for the name

Named after the minaret, which one of the stones used to build it is the red stone.

Builder

Alaa Al - Din Al - Khalouti Ibn Al - Sheikh Shams Al - Din Mohammed Al - Khalouti

The mosque is one of the first Ottoman monuments in the city of Jerusalem, a small square shape; the area of ​​the prayer house is not more than 4 × 9 m 2.

It built of stone in red and white (the precious stone) and has a gate in its wall north.

The southern wall of its southern mihrab has a beautiful semi-circular hold.

The ceiling of the mosque encircled by a cross-steeple dome with an astral dome.

In addition to its distinctive minaret, followed by a water cycle and the rest of the al-Hakoura, where various fruit trees planted.

According to some legitimate arguments attributed to the minaret, which enters the red stone in the construction, which refers to the individual as such in the neighborhood where it is located.

In general, the study of Dr. Mohammed Ghosheh “Al-Saadiyya neighborhood” refers to the proportion of this mosque to its origin (Sheikh Ali Khaluti) or to minaret.

To say that some have a corner.

The legal arguments and the documents of the Foundation for Revival of Heritage and Islamic Research include references to some of its employees who were Turkish and Jerusalemite elements.

As reported by the Awqaf, which monitored the interests of the mosque, as well as references to Tameer more than five times in the middle of the twentieth century.

Where the cost of reconstruction estimated at 3750 piasters, which illuminated in 1960. After two decades, the walls of the outer walls obliterated, and did not escape the aggression of the Zionist occupation forces in Jerusalem, which has long prevented the raising of the adhaan

History

A year ago (940 AH / 1533 AD)

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