Image Gallery
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Agriculture: Camel load of straw going to Gaza, 1936.
Agriculture: Drawing wheat from underground store in Isdūd (Ashdod), 1908.
Agriculture: Gardens around Gaza's city centre, c. 1910.
Agriculture: Gardens at the fringe of the sand dunes.
ʿAjamī Mosque / Masjid al-ʿAjamī
Asqalan, the antique ruins, December 1917.
Bāb al-Baḥr Cemetery, c. 1900.
Bāb al-Baḥr Cemetery: Looking southwards towards Gaza's city centre.
Baladiyyat Ghazza (Gaza town hall), Mandate period.
Baladiyyat Ghazza / Gazze Belediye Dairesi: Gaza's town hall, c. 1900.
Bedouin Shaykh from the Gaza region, c. 1900.
Boulevard Cemal Pasha, Mandate period (renamed ʿUmar al-Mukhtār Street in the 1903s).
Builders at the Bāb al-Baḥr Cemetery, c. 1900.
Carpenters Market (Sūq al-Najjārīn, Ṭarīq al-Manjara) in Gaza's Zaytūn neighbourhood.
Church Missionary Society Compound (Hạkūrat al-Inklīz).
Church of Saint Porphyrius, c. 2017.
Church of Saint Porphyrius, c. 2017.
Church of Saint Porphyrius, c. 2017.
Church of St. Porphyrius (Kanīsat a-Rūm / al-Qiddīs Borfīriyūs) and Kātib Wilāya Mosque, mid-twentieth century.
Citadel complex of Gaza (probably the barracks, kişle), c. 1900.
Citadel Mosque (Masjid al-Qalʿa), dome.
Citadel Mosque (Masjid al-Qalʿa), top view.
Dayr al-Balah, British bivouac, October 1917.
Engelmann, G. 1819. Citadel complex of Gaza; lithograph.
Engelmann, G. 1819. Grand Mosque; lithograph.
Engelmann, G. 1819. Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān (Qaṣr al-Bāshā); lithograph.
Fenn, Harry. 1906. Jabal al-Munṭār.
Fishermen near Gaza's port, 1937.
Gaza, a lithography by D. Roberts.
Gaza by night, c. 1950.
Gaza from a distant hill.
Gaza from afar.
Gaza from the East. Aerial photograph, c. 1917.
Gaza from the West, c. 1900.
Gaza, general view.
Gaza,.Small drawing.
Gaza's neighbourhoods marked on an aerial photo from the early 21st century.
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, interior.
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, top view.
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.
Ḥamāma village, Abū Arqūb Mausoleum, c. 1900.
Ḥamāma village, map from British Village Survey 1946 (1).
Ḥamāma village, map from British Village Survey 1946 (2).
Ḥammām al-Sumara, c. 2017.
Ḥammām al-Sumara, c. 2017.
Ḥammām Street (Shāriʿ al-Ḥammām)
Hāshim Mosque, after destruction in World War I.
Hāshim Mosque and Mausoleum, interior / Hazret-i Hâşim Mescid ve Türbe-i Şerif'in derûnu (içi).
Hāshim Mosque and Mausoleum, interior / Hazret-i Hâşim Mescid ve Türbe-i Şerif'in derûnu (içi).
Hashim Mosque, c. 2017.
Hashim Mosque, c. 2017.
Hāshim Mosque, cross section from the East.
Hāshim Mosque, early twenty-first century.
Hāshim Mosque. Photograph, c. 1900.
Hāshim Mosque, seen from the north, c. 1917.
Hāshim Mosque, top view.
Ibn Marwān Mosque.
Ibn Marwān Mosque, cross section
Ibn Marwān Mosque (Jāmiʿ Ibn Marwān).
Ibn Marwān Mosque (Jāmiʿ Ibn Marwān), photograph by the Mandate Antiquities Department.
Ibn Marwān Mosque, top view.
Ibn ʿUthmān Mosque (Jāmiʿ Aḥmad Ibn ʿUthmān), c. 2017.
Ibn ʿUthmān Mosque (Jāmiʿ Aḥmad Ibn ʿUthmān), c. 2017.
Ibn ʿUthmān Mosque (Jāmiʿ Aḥmad Ibn ʿUthmān), early twenty-first century.
Ibn ʿUthmān Mosque (Jāmiʿ Ibn ʿUthmān, Jāmiʿ al-Shajāʿiyya).
Ibn ʿUthmān Mosque, minbar and miḥrāb from the Mamlūk period.
Jabal al-Munṭār, 'Samson's Gate', c. 1858.
Jabal al-Munṭār; view of Gaza, 1918.
Jabal al-Munṭār, view of Gaza, probably Mandate Period.
Jabāliyā Mosque, minaret.
Jabal Munṭār, view of Gaza, May 1911.
Judayda neighbourhood, c. 1858.
Kātib Wilāya Mosque (Jāmiʿ Kātib Wilāya, also Kātib Awliyāʾ), minarett.
Kātib Wilāya Mosque (Jāmiʿ Kātib Wilāya / Awliyāʾ) and Church of St. Porphyrius, mid-20th century.
Kātib Wilāya Mosque (Jāmiʿ Kātib Wilāya / Awliyāʾ), minaret.
Kātib Wilāya Mosque (Jāmiʿ Kātib Wilāya / Awliyāʾ), top view scheme..
Khān al-Zayt with Ḥammām al-Sumara, 1940s.
Khān Yūnis, the remains of the frontal facade and the gate of the khān.
Khān Yūnis, top view plan.
Khān Yūnus, the Mamluk khān (caravanserai).
Majdal, mosque (Tâbi-i Mecdel Kasabası Mecid-i Şerifi).
Mamlūk buildings: Door from the Mamlūk period in Gaza's old city centre.
Maṣbanat al-Bāshā, a soap factory, before 1992.
Maṣbanat al-Bāshā, a soap factory, before 1992.
Members of Gaza's Municipal Council in 1912
People at a well.
People from the Gaza region, probably Bedouins, c. 1900.
Port of Gaza: Surroundings.
Potterer's yard in Gaza, 1936.
Pottery merchants of Gaza on the way to a market, 1936.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, c. 2017.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, c. 2017.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, entrance to the upper floor and stairs in the foreground.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, entrance to the upper floor, December 1916.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, entrance to the upper floor, lion-shaped calligraphic basmalah.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, ornaments on the Southern wall.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān (Qaṣr al-Bāshā), 3D plan of the ground floor.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān (Qaṣr al-Bāshā), front side (Western facade).
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān (Qaṣr al-Bāshā), Southern facade.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān (Qaṣr al-Bāshā), top view of the ground floor.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān (Qaṣr al-Bāshā), top view of the upper floor.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, stone relief (covered under plaster today).
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, the Eastern facade of the Palace.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, the facade of the Northern Palace.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, the ornaments of the Northern facade.
Qaṣr Āl Riḍwān, upper part of the Southern wall.
Qastina (village) and its Eastern environs in 1918.
Qastina (village) in 1917.
Qazdamrī Mosque, cross section.
Qazdamrī Mosque (Taqizdamrī Mosque, Shawwā Mosque), cross section.
Qazdamrī Mosque, the portal.
Qazdamrī Mosque, top view.
Roberts, David. 1839. Jabal al-Munṭār, view of Gaza.
Rüşdiye School (Ottoman secondary school).
Rüşdiye School (Ottoman secondary school).
Saʿīd al-Shawwā, photograph between 1906 and 1917.
Saray (Hükumet Dairesi, Sarāya, Government House), c. 1900.
Sebil of Sultan Abdülhamid II (also Sabīl al-Rifāʿiyya), general view, 2018.
Sebil of Sultan Abdülhamid II, façade, 2018.
Sebil of Sultan Abdülhamid II, the three water pipes, c. 2017.
Shaykh Ḥasan (tomb and pilgrimage site), between 1921 and 1926.
Shaykh Shaʿbān Cemetery.
Shaykh Shaʿbān Mosque and Cemetery, c. 1900.
Shaykh Shaʿbān Mosque, mosque and zāwīya before demolition.
Shaykh Zakariyā Mosque (Jāmiʿ al-Shaykh Zakariyā) in the 1940s.
Shaykh Zakariyā Mosque (Jāmiʿ al-Shaykh Zakariyā), the extinct open court of the mosque.
Sibāṭ al-Muftī, street view.
Sibāṭ al-Muftī, street view.
Sūq al-Qayṣāriyya, contemporary photo from inside the market.
Sūq al-Qayṣariyya; Eastern Gate
Telegraph and Post Office of Gaza in the late Ottoman period / Gazze Telegrafhanesi / Dār al-Teleghrāf.
Thomson, William McClure. 1874. Jabal al-Munṭār (probably based on Roberts' view of Gaza of 1839).
Two elderly men sitting in front of Al-Ghazālī Mosque (Shajāʿiyya)
Umar al-Mukhtār Street (formerly al-Sūq al-Kabīr and Boulevard Cemal Pasha), c. 1960s.
Woman with baby.
Women carrying water jars at the fringe between plantations and sand dunes, early twentieth century.