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Description
Property Name: Al Tawbe Mosque
Inventory No: 961-6-9
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-08-25
Country (State party): Lebanon
Province: Tripoli
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 34° 26′ 16.54″ N
35° 50′ 46.22″ E
Historic Period: 17th century, 1st half, 14th century, 1st half
Year of Construction: unknown
Style: Classical Ottoman, Mamluk
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Al Tawbe Mosque is supposed to be built in the 14th century but was restored in the 17th century. Therefore, the building contains the features of the both Mamluk and Ottoman period.
Selection Criteria
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
iv. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history
State of Preservation
It was a Mamluk construction built in the 14th century, however destroyed by a flood that occurred in year 1612. The mosque got restored during early Ottoman Period.
References
Salam-Liebich, Hayat. The Architecture of the Mamluk City of Tripoli, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1983.
Tadmuri, Omar Abdel Salam; Salame-Sarkis, Hassan. Tripoli the Old City: monuments survey-mosques and madrasas: a sourcebook of maps and architectural drawings.
Website of Archnet, http://archnet.org
The Tripoli Internet Database, http://tripoli-city.org