{{Short description|Mosque in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox religious building | name = Siksik Mosque | native_name = {{lang|ar|مسجد السكسك}}<br/>{{lang|he|מסגד סיכסיכ}} | native_name_lang = ar | image = Siksik_Mosque.jpg | image_upright = 1.4 | alt = | caption = The mosque in 2023 | map_type = Israel center ta | map_size = 250px | map_alt = | map_relief = 1 | map_caption = Location of the mosque in central [[Israel]] | mapframe = yes | coordinates = {{Coord|32.05254919785442|34.75786757362157|type:landmark_region:IL|format=dms|display=it}} | coordinates_footnotes = | religious_affiliation = [[Islam]] | tradition = [[Sunni]] | locale = | location = [[Jaffa]], [[Tel Aviv]], [[Central District (Israel)|Central]] | deity = | rite = | sect = | festival = <!-- or | festivals = --> | cercle = | country = [[Israel]] | administration = | consecration_year = | organisational_status = {{ubl|[[Mosque]]<br/>{{nowrap|{{small|(1883{{endash}}1919; since 2009)}}}}|[[Profane use]]<br/>{{small|(1919{{endash}}2009)}}}}<!-- or | organizational_status = --> | functional_status = Active | heritage_designation = | ownership = | governing_body = | leadership = | bhattaraka = | patron = | religious_features_label = | religious_features = | architect = | architecture_type = {{nowrap|[[Mosque architecture]]}} | architecture_style = [[Ottoman architecture|Ottoman]] | founded_by = Hajj Abd al-Qadir al-Siksik | creator = | funded_by = | general_contractor = | established = | groundbreaking = | year_completed = 1883 | construction_cost = | date_demolished = <!-- or | date_destroyed = --> | facade_direction = | capacity = | length = | width = | width_nave = | interior_area = | height_max = | dome_quantity = One | dome_height_outer = | dome_height_inner = | dome_dia_outer = | dome_dia_inner = | minaret_quantity = One | minaret_height = | spire_quantity = | spire_height = | site_area = | temple_quantity = | monument_quantity = | shrine_quantity = | inscriptions = | materials = | elevation_m = <!-- or | elevation_ft = --> | elevation_footnotes = | nrhp = | designated = | added = | refnum = | footnotes = | website = }} The '''Siksik Mosque''' or '''Al-Saksak Mosque''' ({{langx|ar|مسجد السكسك}}; {{langx|he|מסגד סיכסיכ}}) is a [[mosque]] in the [[Old Jaffa|Old City]] of [[Jaffa]], in the [[Central District (Israel)|Central]] district of [[Israel]].
== History == [[Image:Siksik Mosque and Sabil Siksik, Jaffa.jpg|thumb|left|Siksik Mosque and Sabil Siksik in 2008 before renovation]]The Siksik Mosque was constructed in the 1880s by the prominent Jaffa's Siksik family. [[Mahmoud Yazbak]] named Hajj Abd alQadir al-Siksik as the principal founder of the mosque. It was built on the land of Siksik family’s orchard on the Jaffa Jerusalem Road.<ref name="yazbak"></ref> It is the second mosque constructed outside the city walls.
The mosque stopped being used for worship in 1919.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jpost.com/Local-Israel/Tel-Aviv-And-Center/Mosque-gets-new-breath-of-life-after-90-years |title=Mosque gets new breath of life after 90 years |last=Bulwar David-Hay |first=Miriam |date=2009-07-08 |website=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> In 1948, the mosque's courtyard and part of the prayer hall were transformed into a café, and it was finally confiscated in 1965. The building also hosted a factory for the manufacture of plastic tools, while the second floor became a club for Bulgarian Jews.<ref name="yazbak">{{Cite report |url=https://www.adalah.org/uploads/oldfiles/Public/files/English/Publications/Makan/Makan-v2/Makan-Vol-2-Right-to-a-Spatial-Narrative-23-Islamic-Waqf-Yaffa-Urban-Space-Ottoman-to-Israel-Mahmoud-Yazbak.pdf |title=The Islamic Waqf in Yaffa and the Urban Space: From the Ottoman State to the State of Israel |last=Yazbak |first=Mahmoud |volume=2}}</ref>
In 2009, the mosque was renovated and is recommenced functioning as an Islamic place of worship.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shimoni |first=Ran |date=20 February 2023 |title=Jewish Israelis Moved Next Door to a Mosque. Now They Kvetch About the Muezzin |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/jewish-israelis-moved-to-jaffa-now-they-kvetch-about-a-mosques-prayers/00000186-6eaa-dbd5-addf-ffabe0b30000 |access-date=18 November 2023 |website=Haaretz}}</ref>
== Description == === Siksik Mosque's Sebil === The mosque has a public fountain ([[Sebil (fountain)|sebil]]), which has the same name. It is built in the same style as Mahmudi fountain of nearby [[Mahmoudiya Mosque]]. The fountain building is decorated with a double-pointed arch. The upper part of the front wall is divided into six fields by bands. All those fields are empty. The slab with the inscription was attached by iron hooks to the middle top field. The lower part of the fountain wall has three decorative arches at the bottom of each tap, from which the water flows.<ref name="corpus"></ref>
The slab with an inscription, sized {{convert|120|by|100|cm}}, is attached to the top middle front wall of the fountain. It has five lines, divided by bands. There is a [[tughra]] of the sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]] above the inscription.<ref name="corpus">{{Cite book |last=Sharon |first=Moshe |title=Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Six |publisher=BRILL |year=2016 |isbn=9789004325159 |pages=177}}</ref>
== See also == {{stack|{{portal|Islam|Israel}}}} * [[Islam in Israel]] * [[List of mosques in Israel]]
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{{Mosques in Israel}}
[[Category:19th-century mosques in Israel]] [[Category:Jaffa]] [[Category:Mosque buildings with domes in Israel]] [[Category:Mosque buildings with minarets in Israel]] [[Category:Mosques completed in the 1880s]] [[Category:Mosques in Tel Aviv]] [[Category:Ottoman mosques in Israel|TelAvivYafo SiksikMosque]] [[Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1883]]