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Description
Property Name: AlBahaa Mosque
Inventory No: 961-6-6
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-08-19
Country (State party): Lebanon
Province: Tripoli
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 34° 26′ 6.38″ N
35° 50′ 40.11″ E
Historic Period: 14th century, 1st half
Year of Construction: 1305-1306
Style: Moorish
Original Use: Khan
Current Use: Mosque, Residential
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Masjid Abd al-Wahid is one of the oldest and smallest monuments in Tripoli. It did not attract the attention of the travelers for years; however, it has its own tradition.
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
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
– Built by ‘Abd al-Wâhid al-Miknâsi in 1305-1306, this Mamluk mosque has a distinctive Moroccan-style minaret.
The mosque is considered the oldest mosque in Tripoli after the Mansouri mosque,
It is the smallest mosque of Mamluk Tripoli. This mosque is famous for its small and little elevated minaret, It consisted of a small prayer hall and an external courtyard with an ablution fountain in the middle that was removed about 25 years ago. the courtyard was roofed and added to the prayer hall.
Open to prayers.
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.
The Tripoli Internet Database, http://tripoli-city.org