An-Nasr Mosque
{{Short description|Sunni mosque in Nablus, Palestine}}
{{about|the mosque in Nablus|the mosque in the Beit Hanoun|Umm al-Nasr Mosque}}
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An-Nasr Mosque ({{langx|ar|مسجد النصر}} Masjid an-Nasr translated as "Victory Mosque") is a mosque located in Nablus, Palestine. It is situated in the central square of the Old City of Nablus and is donned as the "symbol of Nablus".Semplici, Andrea and Boccia, Mario. [http://www.ucodep.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=631&Itemid=90 - Nablus, At the Foot of the Holy Mountain] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708122053/https://www.ucodep.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=631&Itemid=90 |date=2017-07-08 }} Med Cooperation, p.17. An-Nasr Mosque has a turquoise dome and its prayer room is located in the second floor of the building.Bennet, James. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/world/mideast-turmoil-west-bank-battle-in-nablus-s-casbah-israel-tightens-the-noose.html?pagewanted=all In Nablus's Casbah, Israel tightens the Noose] The New York Times. 2002-04-08
History
Originally, an-Nasr was a Byzantine church, and then the Templars constructed a small church which consisted of a circular building with a red dome during the Crusader rule of Palestine. The Crusaders lost Nablus in 1187 to the Ayyubids and by the 14th century Nablus was in Mamluk hands. The Mamluks transformed the Crusader church into the three-nave an-Nasr Mosque.[http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/mad/discussion/035discuss.html Neapolis - (Nablus)] Studium Biblicum Fransicum - Jerusalem. The Ottomans built a government building adjacent to the mosque. An-Nasr was destroyed by an earthquake that struck Nablus in 1927.
The Supreme Muslim Council under Amin al-Husayni constructed the an-Nasr Mosque on the site with a completely different structural design in 1935.Salameh, Khader Ibrahim. (2001). [https://books.google.com/books?id=vckRtGOVf3YC&dq=Nasr+Mosque+Nablus&pg=PT203 The Qurʼān Manuscripts in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem] Garnet & Ithaca Press, p.190. {{ISBN|1-85964-132-6}}. The reconstruction was supervised by Shaykh Amr Arafat, a resident of Nablus whose clan — the Fityanis — served as the mosque's waqf superintendents.Doumani, Beshara. (1995). [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft896nb5pc&chunk.id=ch2&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch2&brand=eschol;query=Nasr%20mosque#1 Rediscovering Palestine, Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900] University of California Press. The imam of the mosque is traditionally of the Hanafi fiqh.Yazbak, Mahmoud. (1997). [https://www.jstor.org/pss/163852 Nabulsi Ulama in the Late Ottoman Period, 1864-1914] Cambridge University Press. According to Islamic tradition, an-Nasr Mosque is built on the exact spot where Yaqub (Jacob) was brought the "bloody and tattered coat" of Yusuf (Joseph) by his sons.Curtis, William E. (1903).[https://books.google.com/books?id=PKwLAAAAYAAJ&dq=Nasr+Mosque+Nablus&pg=PA315 To-day in Syria and Palestine] F.H. Revell Company, p.315.
In February 1998, violence in Nablus between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians that resulted in several Palestinian deaths occurred after Israeli soldiers squabbled with Palestinian worshippers at an-Nasr Mosque.Clines, Francis X.[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/13/world/new-squabbling-in-israel-widens-2-leaders-split.html New Squabbling In Israel Widens 2 Leaders' Split] The New York Times. 1998-02-13.
On March 7, 2025, the Israeli forces stormed several mosques in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, they set fire to an-Nasr Mosque and prevented firefighters from extinguishing the blaze. According to eyewitnesses, the fire damaged the imam’s quarters, as well as parts of the mosque’s walls and carpets. The Ministry of Religious Affairs (Palestine) and the director of the Nablus Waqf condemned the incident, calling it a serious violation of religious and international norms.{{cite web |title=Israeli army storms mosques in Nablus, sets fire to historic Al-Nasr Mosque |url=https://www.nation.com.pk/07-Mar-2025/israeli-army-storms-mosques-in-nablus-sets-fire-to-historic-al-nasr-mosque |website=Nation.com.pk |date=March 7, 2025 |access-date=March 7, 2025}}
Gallery
File:An Nasr Mosque Nablus.jpg|Interior view
File:An-Nasr Mosque 001.jpg|Entrance stairs
File:مسجد النصر في مدينة نابلس في البلدة القديمة.jpg|The mosque with its green dome in downtown Nablus
See also
References
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