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Prophet Yunus Mosque
(مسجد النبي يونس)

Title	Prophet Yunus Mosque
Title Original	مسجد النبي يونس
Publication Date:	623 / 1226
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID	monument;ISL;pa;Mon01;12;ar
Library Location	It is located in the center of the Old City, 5 km north of Hebron, Halhul, Palestine
Date	623 / 1226
Notes	The building consists of a mosque and a shrine (tomb). The newly built mosque was built on the ruins of the original Ayyubid mosque. It consists of two floors, the first floor contains between its walls what remains of the remains of the Ayyubid Mosque, and a cave with a lighthouse on it. The shrine of the Prophet Yunus can be reached from this large mosque through the ground floor gate. You can also see what remains of the old building of the mosque by heading to the center of the mosque towards the Qibla. The old shrine consists of a building with a square plan surrounded on its southern, western and eastern sides by porticoes. Each portico rests on three large pillars bearing beautifully and elaborately intersecting arches. Beneath the corridors are nice windows overlooking the square-shaped memorial room of the shrine, topped by a barrel vault. The shrine is covered with a green cloth, as is customary in Islamic shrines. Above the western window of the shrine room, there is a panel woven with silk threads explaining the name of the owner of the tomb. It is of the late Ottoman style (it may be from the time of Sultan Abdul Hamid) and resembles its counterparts in the Ibrahimi Mosque. The tomb itself is a wooden structure, at the bottom of which the burial chamber lies in a cave under the mosque that cannot be visited or reached. The grave does not face the direction of the Qiblah, as is the custom of graves in Islam, but rather deviates at a sharp angle towards the southwest. This may be due to the fact that the heritage of this place dates back to before Islam, as evidenced by the discovery of a series of ancient graves during the work of expanding the mosque. The townspeople attribute dignity to this shrine, and it constitutes a center for the religious and folklore heritage of the town.
Sample Text	Yusuf al-Natsheh “Mosque of the Prophet Yunus” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;pa;Mon01;12;ar

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Prophet Yunus Mosque

(مسجد النبي يونس)

Publication Date 623 / 1226

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Record ID monument;ISL;pa;Mon01;12;ar

Library Location It is located in the center of the Old City, 5 km north of Hebron, Halhul, Palestine

Date 623 / 1226

Notes The building consists of a mosque and a shrine (tomb). The newly built mosque was built on the ruins of the original Ayyubid mosque. It consists of two floors, the first floor contains between its walls what remains of the remains of the Ayyubid Mosque, and a cave with a lighthouse on it. The shrine of the Prophet Yunus can be reached from this large mosque through the ground floor gate. You can also see what remains of the old building of the mosque by heading to the center of the mosque towards the Qibla. The old shrine consists of a building with a square plan surrounded on its southern, western and eastern sides by porticoes. Each portico rests on three large pillars bearing beautifully and elaborately intersecting arches. Beneath the corridors are nice windows overlooking the square-shaped memorial room of the shrine, topped by a barrel vault. The shrine is covered with a green cloth, as is customary in Islamic shrines. Above the western window of the shrine room, there is a panel woven with silk threads explaining the name of the owner of the tomb. It is of the late Ottoman style (it may be from the time of Sultan Abdul Hamid) and resembles its counterparts in the Ibrahimi Mosque. The tomb itself is a wooden structure, at the bottom of which the burial chamber lies in a cave under the mosque that cannot be visited or reached. The grave does not face the direction of the Qiblah, as is the custom of graves in Islam, but rather deviates at a sharp angle towards the southwest. This may be due to the fact that the heritage of this place dates back to before Islam, as evidenced by the discovery of a series of ancient graves during the work of expanding the mosque. The townspeople attribute dignity to this shrine, and it constitutes a center for the religious and folklore heritage of the town.

Sample Text Yusuf al-Natsheh “Mosque of the Prophet Yunus” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;pa;Mon01;12;ar