Jami' Nur al-Din

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ArchNet Site ID	AS02838
Variant Names	Nur al-Din Mosque, al-Jami' al-Nuri, Jami' al-Nuri, al-Nuri Mosque, Nur al-Din Mosque
Location	Hama, Syria
Date	1162/558 AH
Style/Period	Zangid
Century	12th
Building Type	religious
Building Usage	mosque

Notes

The Ayyubid leader, Nur al-Din, in 1162 founded the Nur al-Din mosque located in heart of Hama on the banks of the Orontes River. The square minaret, made of alternating bands of black basalt and yellow limestone, is the mosque's strongest feature. Inside the mosque, the intricately carved wooden minbar still stands as one of the oldest preserved testaments to Islamic history. Sources: Burns, Ross. 1992. Monuments of Syria. London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 126. Meinecke, Michael. 1992. Die Mamlukische Architektur in Ägypten und Syrien (648/1250 bis 923/1517). Glückstadt: Verlag J. J. Augustin, I/74. Rihawi, Abdul Qader. 1979. Arabic Islamic Architecture in Syria. Damascus: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 107.

Downloadable files associated with this site

Author	Title	Type	Year
Saeed Arida	Floor plan of Nur al-Din Mosque, Hama	CAD drawing(s)	2003
Saeed Arida	Floor plan of Nur al-Din Mosque, Hama	line drawing(s)	2003