Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Located in Christian quarter to the south of Alqiama Church overlooking its square.
Reason for the name
Got its name due to its location in the place where Omar bin Al-Khattab prayed, after receiving the keys of the city.
Builder
Alafdal King Noor al - Din bin Salah al - Din.
Reached through 11 threshold leads to the open field and planted with roses and chrome.
The house of prayer-overcome simplicity in its shape, covered with vaults cross-shaped ceiling triangle, and the interior based on three columns.
It has an average area compared to other mosques, and has a maximum height of approximately four meters from the center, opened in the southern façade.
The mihrab consisting of a grotto topped with a memorial stone monument back to the building that rises above the mosque, and in the seventies of the last century tiling walls from the inside with saw stone to prevent Moisture, and later added a library and a toilet.
The mosque is located in the center of a lively area crowded with Christian and Muslim visitors and shops specialized in the sale of antiques and popular fashion, and is the most prominent Islamic symbol and witness to the tolerance of Arab Muslims and coexistence with other owners of other religions and sects.
It is said that the minaret of the mosque dates back to the Mameluke period, it said that the mosque built in the year 870 AH / AD 1465 AH.
Where the minaret is similar to the building of the Mameluke minarets.
It said that the building done in a place other than the place where our master Omar ibn al-Khattab (may Allaah be pleased with him).
This is because the entrance to Alqiama Church was on the eastern side, until it converted during the period of the Crusader occupation, where the door opened from the south side; it also said that the building done in a place other than that of the Muslim Khalipha when he opened Jerusalem in 1536 AH.
History
Year (589 AH / 1193 AD).