Al-Mansouri Mosque in Jableh city represents the ancient Syrian civilization

Tourism

Al- Mansouri  Grand Mosque is in the heart of the old city of Jableh in Lattakia  province  represents  an architectural masterpiece  and a witness to an ancient civilization there.

The construction of the mosque dates back to 1095 and then it was restored after the liberation of the city from the Crusaders.

The director of the Jableh Endowments Hamdi Dannoura told  the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)  that the mosque is distinguished in its present architectural composition by an Ayyubid-Mamluk building with a high-pitched minaret that contains at its southern end a hollow star and some arches, indicating  the southern wall of the mosque is supported on the outside by five stone arches in the form of a quarter circle under which a road passes.

The mosque has two main gates in the eastern and western sides with a canopy consisting of a semi-circular arch and  between them there is  a square-courtyard courtyard  furnished with sandstone tiles.

Dannoura pointed out that the southern side of the mosque includes the prayer place , which is a rectangular portico based on ten semi-circular arches.

Rawaa Ghanam

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