Hassan Bek Mosque

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• Mohammed Hussaein

  29 March 2018

  The Hassan Bek Mosque was built in 1916 at the northern boundary of Arab Jaffa with what in time became the Jewish metropolis of Tel Aviv, and its history is closely bound up with the various stages of the Arab-Jewish conflict, from its beginnings as a communal strife under Ottoman and British rule and up to the present. It has been on various occasions the subject of heated debate and eventful controversy, and has a deep symbolic and emotional meaning to Jaffa Arabs.
  
  Its Ottoman-style architecture contrasts sharply with the contemporary modern high-rises situated near it. It is located between Neve Tzedek neighbourhood and the Mediterranean Sea, on the fast road to Jaffa.
  The Ottoman-style mosque initially measured 21 by 28 metres, was well-proportioned and fit well into the Al-Manshiya neighbourhood.It had a courtyard partially paved and in part used as a garden; the prayer hall was entered by a staircase on its northern side. In 1923 the mosque was already the object of politically motivated renovations ordered by the Supreme Muslim Council,and its overall area was substantially expanded in the 1980s.
  
  The mosque employs a white limestone instead of using the more common stone of the area, kurkar, a yellow-brown calcareous sandstone. The walls of the mosque are perforated with intricately decorated and colourfully glazed windows. The walls are also refined by narrow engaged piers that divide the wide façades into smaller sections.
  
  The current minaret was rebuilt at twice its original height as part of the renovation in the 1980s; extremely tall and slender, it contrasts with the square prayer hall. A very low tower rises on the opposite side of the mosque. The concrete roof is flat and proportionally low, with a shallow dome over the central bay.

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• بهاء 227

  31 August 2017

  Msuites THR

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• Yosef Amzalag

  22 June 2017

  Great looking building

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• Or Hiltch

  26 March 2017

  You will most likely pass this on your visit to the Carmel market or other city attractions. Don't come especially for this because it's quite neglected.

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• Sharif Chehab

  10 February 2017

  Just beautiful and nice people around

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• Mahier Dawood

  02 June 2016

  I met a man in Al-Aqsa who helped me reach the hotel I was staying at in Tel-Aviv. I used this mosque as a landmark to get to hotel. By some chance, he took me all the way to the mosque and even had the keys for it so I could pray Salaatul Asr in this mosque.

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• Cheryl Conway

  25 May 2016

  It is free to pray in
  It is used
  Who says otherwise?
  Israeli Arabs are free
  And Palestine is insulting to an Arab
  It means stinky yahudi
  And the land of Yahudim is free
  You all make stupid statements
  Built 1916 during ottoman occupation of Hebrew land
  Also used to house Arab snipers to kill Yahudim during British occupation of Hebrew land

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• Oscar Atlas

  07 May 2016

  This magnificent Mosque is one of many sites which represent the religious and cultural diversity in Israel.

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