Image Gallery
of Grand Mosque or ʿUmarī Mosque (al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr al-ʿUmarī), Daraj / Barjiliyya, Gaza
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Information in Tabbāʿ, vol. 2, pp. 105-115 ; on the mosque's library cf. ibid., pp. 116-126.
1. People: Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn al-Bakrī supervised the mosque endowments (naẓārat al-awqāf) at the end of the 12th century AH (d. 1196H). Between 1305-1339H (~1887/8-1920/1) this position was held by Shaykh Khalīl al-ʿAlamī.
Destroyed by the British during WWI; renovated during the 1920s and -30s.
2. History:
Considered the oldest mosque in the city of Gaza.
Used to be a pagan temple and then a Byzantine church.
Turned into a mosque after the Islamic occupation of Gaza in the days of the 2nd Caliph ʿUmar, after whom the mosque is named.
Engelmann, G. 1819. Grand Mosque; lithograph.
Grand Mosque, 1860s, view from the northeast.
Grand Mosque, 1940s, view from the East.
Grand Mosque and city centre, view from the West. Gaza, between 1920 and 1933.
Grand Mosque, arcade, c. 2017.
Grand Mosque, c. 1900. View from the South.
Grand Mosque, c. 1900, view from the Zaytūn neighbourhood.
Grand Mosque, c. 2000, view from inside the courtyard, looking eastwards.
Grand Mosque, courtyard, c. 2017.
Grand Mosque, cross section (A-A).
Grand Mosque, cross section (B-B).
Grand Mosque, facade showing the gabled roof and a large circular window.
Grand Mosque, general view of the courtyard / Große Moschee des ʿUmar, Gesamtansicht des Hofes
Grand Mosque, Mandate period. View from the North, overlooking Boulevard Cemal Pasha.
Grand Mosque, minaret, c. 2017.
Grand Mosque, minarett / Große Moschee des ʿUmar, Minarett.
Grand Mosque's minarett and palm groves.
Grand Mosque, the view from the minarett.
Grand Mosque, view from the West, probably Mandate period.
Grand Mosque with Boulevard Cemal Pasha, 1920-1933.
Greek convent (today Grand Mosque?).
Group portrayal of men inside the Grand Mosque's courtyard, c. 1900.
