{{Short description|Mosque in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox religious building | building_name = Al-Bahr Mosque | native_name = {{ubl|{{lang|ar|مسجد البحر}}|{{lang|he|מסגד הים}}}} | image = Deniz Camisi 162.jpg | image_upright = 1.4 | caption = View of the [[minaret]] | location = HaAliya HaShniya Street, [[Jaffa]], [[Tel Aviv]], [[Tel Aviv District]] | country = [[Israel]] | map_type = Israel center ta | map_size = 250 | map_relief = 1 | map_caption = Location of the mosque in Tel Aviv District, [[Israel]] | mapframe = yes | coordinates = {{coord|32|03|20|N|34|45|10|E|region:IL_type:landmark_source:kolossus-hewiki|display=it}} | religious_affiliation = [[Islam]] | tradition = [[Sunni]] | province = | consecration_year = | status = [[Mosque]] | functional_status = Active | leadership = | website = | architect = | architecture_type = {{nowrap|[[Mosque architecture]]}} | architecture_style = [[Ottoman architecture|Ottoman]] | facade_direction = | year_completed = 1675 [[Common Era|CE]] | construction_cost = | capacity = | length = | width = | width_nave = | height_max = | dome_quantity = | dome_height_outer = | dome_height_inner = | dome_dia_outer = | dome_dia_inner = | minaret_quantity = One | minaret_height = | spire_quantity = | spire_height = | materials = }} The '''al-Bahr Mosque''' ({{langx|ar|مسجد البحر|Masjid al-Bahr|The Sea Mosque}}; {{langx|he|מסגד הים|Misgad HaYam}}), is the oldest extant [[mosque]] in the [[Old Jaffa|historical part]] of [[Jaffa]], in greater [[Tel Aviv]], in the [[Tel Aviv District]] of [[Israel]].
== Overview == Built in 1675 [[Common Era|CE]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Mirkin, Dan |chapter=The Ottoman Port of Jaffa: A Port without a Harbour |editor1=Burke, Aaron A. |editor2=Strange Burke, Katherine |editor3=Peilstocker, Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2mRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA152 |title=The History and Archaeology of Jaffa |volume=2 |publisher=[[Peeters (publishing company)|ISD LLC]] |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-938-77057-9 |pages=121–155, 152, n.16 }}</ref> the mosque is situated on the HaAliya HaShniya Street near the harbour. Due to its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea, fishermen and sailors used the mosque, as well as nearby inhabitants of the surrounding area.<ref name="Archnet">{{cite web |url=http://www.archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=7225 |title=Al-Bahr Mosque in Jaffa |work=ArchNet |accessdate=2009-08-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629172815/http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=7225 |archive-date=2011-06-29 }}</ref> Built by the [['Azza]] /Alazzeh family as inscribed in stone above the entrance next to the [[Basmala]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Image of proof |url=https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/283548_10150248762133941_1981369_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=cdbe9c&_nc_ohc=hzTd9_mIjbUAX_ElA6k&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.xx&oh=00_AT95BY_3lvLwoAbXZeiLaxoEOccESxDXbewm8G5p8HMr5w&oe=637A06AE |access-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023223759/https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/283548_10150248762133941_1981369_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=cdbe9c&_nc_ohc=hzTd9_mIjbUAX_ElA6k&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.xx&oh=00_AT95BY_3lvLwoAbXZeiLaxoEOccESxDXbewm8G5p8HMr5w&oe=637A06AE |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== See also == {{stack|{{portal|Islam|Israel}}}} * [[Islam in Israel]] * [[List of mosques in Israel]]
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=== Bibliography === * {{cite book |title=A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology) |url=https://www.academia.edu/21539664 |volume=I |first=Andrew |last=Petersen |year=2001 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-727011-0 |pages=[https://www.academia.edu/21539664/Gazetteer_4_D-J 166−167] |archive-date=May 29, 2021 |access-date=December 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529124752/https://www.academia.edu/21539664/Gazetteer_4_D_J |url-status=dead }}
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{{Mosques in Israel}}
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