Al-Khanqah as-Salahiyya Mosque

Al-Khanqah as-Salahiyya Mosque
مسجد الخانقاه الصلاحية
The mosque during the Ottoman period
Religion
AffiliationIslam
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusMosque and khanqah
StatusActive
Location
LocationChristian Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem
Al-Khanqah as-Salahiyya Mosque is located in Jerusalem
Al-Khanqah as-Salahiyya Mosque
Location of the mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem
Geographic coordinates31°46′43.68″N 35°13′45.53″E / 31.7788000°N 35.2293139°E / 31.7788000; 35.2293139
Architecture
StyleAyyubid, Ottoman
FounderṢalāḥ ad-Dīn (Saladin)
Completed
  • 1190s CE (khanqah)
  • 1417 CE (minaret)
Specifications
Dome(s)2 (maybe more)
Minaret(s)1

The Al-Khanqah as-Salahiyya Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الخانقاه الصلاحية, romanized: al-Khānqāh aṣ-Ṣalāḥiyya, lit. 'the lodge of Saladin') is a mosque complex, located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, north of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.[1][2][3] It was named after Saladin, who endowed it. As the name indicates, the complex was originally a khanqah, a place for gatherings of Sufi Islamic adherents, including dervishes. The complex today comprises the mosque as well as a school, a public sitting room, rooms for military officers, a dining room for wayfarers, small rooms for guards, and a very small room for Saladin’s spiritual retreat.[4]

History

The building is situated on the former palace of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Following the Crusader surrender of Jerusalem to Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn (Saladin) in 1187, it became al-Khānqāh aṣ-Ṣalāḥiyya. The building comprised a mosque, a school, a public sitting room, rooms for military officers, a dining room for wayfarers, and small rooms originally for guards, as well as a very small room for Salah ad-Din (Saladin)'s spiritual retreat. As the name indicates, it has also been a khanqah, a convent of Sufi adherents.[4]

The minaret was built in 1417, during the Mamluk period.[5][6] The minaret is almost identical to that of the Mosque of Omar, located on the other side of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.[2] The two minarets were obviously designed as a pair; a line connecting the two minarets would intersect the door of the Tomb of Jesus inside the church, and the minarets are equidistant to that door[1] with their tops at exactly the same elevation despite starting at different ground levels.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "al-Khanqah al-Salahiyya Mosque - Madain Project (en)". madainproject.com. 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Die "El-Khanqah as-Salahiyya Moschee" in Jerusalem" (Text and images). www.theologische-links.de (in German). Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  3. ^ "ISLAMIC AND CHRISTIAN HOLY PLACES" (PDF). PASSIA. n.d.
  4. ^ a b Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome (February 28, 2008). The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-152867-5.
  5. ^ Winter, Dave; Matthews, John (1999). Israel Handbook. Footprint Travel Guides. p. 147. ISBN 1-900949-48-2.
  6. ^ ed-Dyn, Moudjir (1876). Sauvaire (ed.). Histoire de Jérusalem et d'Hébron depuis Abraham jusqu'à la fin du XVe siècle de J.-C. : fragments de la Chronique de Moudjir-ed-dyn (in French). p. 169.
  7. ^ Murphy-O’Connor, J. (2008). The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700. Oxford Archaeological Guides. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-19-923666-4. Retrieved June 20, 2016.

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