Mosques (Masajid and Jawame’)

Wali Allah Muhareb Mosque

Landmark Location: Located at the junction of Bab Alselsela and the market Bashoura, in the first alley heading to the south, which leads to the Haret Al Sharaf & Magharba.

Built
595 AH
Built by
Wali Allah Muhareb
Era
Ayyubid

Location relative to Al-Aqsa

Located at the junction of Bab Alselsela and the market Bashoura, in the first alley heading to the south, which leads to the Haret Al Sharaf & Magharba.

Reason for the name

Named after its builder and guardian Wali Alla Muhareb.

Builder

Wali Allah Muhareb

The mosque consists of a small prayer house, rectangular, with a small width, and a lovely mihrab, and its roof covered with a semi-barrel vault.

Its length is 6.5 meters and 2 meters wide, it has a colonnaded entrance and a small window overlooking the public street. Its land covered with marble.

The mosque subjected to attempts to blur its foundation and waqf inscription, until early in the second half of the twentieth century,

But the urgency of neighbors on the need for reconstruction led to the disclosure of the inscription, which implies that the originator to waqf it three shops proved, two of which, while the third has lost endowments Jerusalem circle because of proof the defendant owns it with a taboo.

The danger facing the mosque

Today, the mosque faces the danger of the Zionist aggression from time to time, especially the greed of the so-called Jewish settlement development company, which has been seeking to confiscate the Jewish settlement since the end of the decade of the twentieth century.

The extremist settlers continue to provoke the feelings of Muslims and harass them until they disabled the loudspeaker,

History

The first ten of the first spring of 595 AH / January 1199.

Read about it

  • Jerusalem Milestones

    The Mosque of Wali Allah Muharib

    Named after the Mujahid scholar Wali Allah Muharib. The mosque is rectangular, and dates back to the Ayyubid era. It’s located in the Jewish Quarter (Ash-Sharaf Quarter).