291. Rabba, ar- / Rabbat Moab / Areopolis / Kafr Rabba | الربّة / ربة مؤاب

al-Kerak Governorate

Jāmi‘

JADIS no. 2207002

MEGA no. 11039

Coordinates: 31°16'16.5"N 35°44'19.0"E

31.271250, 35.738611

Plan: unknown.

Measurements: unknown.

Exterior: unknown.

Interior: unknown.

Building Materials: unknown.

Construction details: unknown.

Preservation: The old mosque has been replaced in 2007 by a new building.

Inscription(s): none known.

Date(s): unknown.

Traveler Reports: “….and in the very heart of the town towards the higher part are the remains of a large Mosque constructed with antique fragments, with two paved courts about it and some very large masses of stone employed in its appendages” (Bankes 1880, 63 = Lewis 2007, 93).

Bibliography: For taxation of the village in the Ottoman registers see Hütteroth-Abdulfattah 1977, 171 s.v. Nāhiya Kerak, Mīr liwā, Kafr Rabbā. For the mosque in particular see Lewis 2007, 93.