Folded prayer rugs in the El Jazzar mosque, Acre (Akko), Northern Israel
The Mosque of Jezzar Pasha was built by Jezzar Ahmet Pasha in 1781. Jezzar Pasha( The Butcher) and his successor Suleyman Pasha are both buried in a small graveyard adjacent to the mosque. The large dome and slender soaring minaret of al-Jazzar's mosque dominate the cityscape of Acre. The building, designed by al-Jazzar in the classical Ottoman style, is lavishly decorated with marble and beautifully lit. The mosque was originally named Jami al-Anwar (the great mosque of lights) and was also known in the beginning as the white mosque, because of its silvery-white dome that glittered to a great distance. The mosque was built on the site of other Muslim and Christian prayer houses on an irregular quadrangle platform. The prayer hall is located in a big courtyard flanked in three sides with vaulted arcades. From the south the courtyard borders with the Cotton Bazaar's white wall. The mosque courtyard contains a cistern, a handsome ornate sabil in front of the Mosque's entrance, a sundial that was used to inform the exact time of prayer, and the tombs of al-Jazzar and his heir Suleyman Pasha. A lock of hair said to have been taken from the Prophet Muhammad is kept in the mosque in a metal reliquary and is shown in congregation once a year at the end of the Ramadan fast.
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Location: Acre, Akko, northern Israel
Photo credit: © Dan Rosen / Alamy / Afripics
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