Latakia-SANA
The Great Mansouri Mosque is located in Zuqaq al-Bahr area in the old city of Jableh, forming an architectural masterpiece in the heart of the old town and a witness to an ancient civilization that passed on this land.
The construction of the mosque dates back to 1095 during the reign of the judge of Jableh Abi Muhammad Obaid Allah bin Muhammad Mansour Al-Tanukhi, and then it was restored after the liberation of the city from the Crusaders.
The director of the Jableh Endowments Hamdi Dannoura explained to SANA reporter that the mosque is distinguished in its present architectural composition by an Ayyubid-Mamluk building with a high-sided minaret that contains at its southern end a hollow star and some arches. The southern wall of the mosque is supported on the outside by five stone arches in the form of a quarter of a circle under which a road passes.
The mosque has two main gates at the eastern end and the other at the northern end, each with a canopy consisting of a semi-circular arch, between them is a square courtyard exposed to the sky, furnished with sandstone tiles.
Dannoura pointed out that the southern side of the mosque includes the prayer house, which is a rectangular portico based on ten semi-circular arches.
Hazar Hammoud
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