Mosque Name: Nahal Hazaz Open-Air Mosques
Country: Negev
City: Rural, Negev Highlands
Year of construction (AD): 700-799
GPS: 30.893767 34.863587
Gibson Classification: Between
Rebuilt facing Mecca: never
Description:
Nahal Hazaz. Another mosque was found in the Sede Boker area on a hilltop near the Nahal Hazaz watercourse (figures. 8, 10; Cohen 1981: 65-67). This mosque consists of one room (7 x 9 m) with a curved mihrab niche (1 x 1 m) in the center of the southern wall. The niche is built of large, roughly-hewn fieldstones standing on their narrow edge. The walls are 1 to 1.2 m high, and are constructed of two rows of roughly-hewn fieldstones and a filler of small stones. The structure was probably without a roof.
On a plain west of the mosque a settlement of seven dwellings was discovered. In the center is a three-room structure measuring 10 x 16 m, with an open courtyard (Cohen 1981: 67-68).
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The Negev Qiblas all face west of Petra, and all the other Qiblas directions.
Perhaps all of the Negev open air mosques used the same person or information when setting their Qiblas, and they all faced too far west. The nearest Qibla is Petra.
Some of the Negev Open Air Mosques
Information taken from:
Early Mosques in the Negev Highlands: New Archaeological Evidence on Islamic Penetration of Southern Palestine Author: Gideon Avni Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 294 (May, 1994), pp. 83-100
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