Mosque Name: Ain Beni Hasan Mosque
Country: Jordan
City: Ain Beni Hasan
Year of construction (AD): 700-799
GPS: 32.270165, 36.055454
Gibson Classification: Between
Description:
The prayer room is about 10 meters wide and 3.5 meters deep, with a central door in the north, and a mihrab in the south wall. Rjoub - Housan 2013 dated this as an Umayyad mosque. Dan Gibson’s team measured the Qibla on the ground, and found it faces 175 making it a Between Qibla.
More information can be found on pages 162-164 in: Islamic Heritage Sites in Jordan, A Student’s Gazetteer, prepared by the MA-Students of The German-Jordanian University, in Architectural Conservation School for Architecture and Built Environment Academic Years, 2017 - 2020, edited by Thomas M. Weber-Karyotakis & Ammar Khammash with Hussein al-Aza‘at, Nader Atiyeh, Catreena Hamarneh, Khairiyeh al-Kukhun & Robert Schick. GJU, Amman 2020
Gibson at the Beni Hasan Mosque
There is enough left of the Beni Hasan mosque, that the mihrab could be measured.
Sketch of the Beni Hasan Mosque
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