Mosque Name: Nitl Mosque
Country: Jordan
City: Nitl
Year of construction (AD): 1100 CE
GPS: 31.652248, 35.861363
Gibson Classification: Between 176.69
Description:
A long rectangular mosque with small trapezoidal open courtyard in the north, using pre-existing walls and directly adjacing the south pareklesion of the Ghassanid church of Saint Sergius on its north flank. It was accessible from the NE corner of this courtyard by a small staircase of four steps. The prayer hall extends to N-S direction, accessible by a formerly well preserved door in the north wall facing the miḥrāb in the South wall. Ajlouni 1992 dates the shape of the mihrab to the Umayyad period.
More information can be found on pages 323-324 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
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The old Nitl village
Sketches of Nitl Mosque
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