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30. ‘Ammān | عمّان
‘Ammān Governorate
Jāmi‘ in the E Sūq portico on the citadel
JADIS no. 231 5002
MEGA no. 2682; 14747
Coordinates: 31°57'19.0"N 35°56'04.0"E
31.955278, 35.934444
Plan: Long rectangular, formed by demolishing the partition walls between three identical shops (“tabernae”) of the NE portico lining the trapezoid square. Opposite the door a pear-shaped cistern.
Measurements: 113.36 m2
Exterior: 23.00 x 6.4 m
Interior: 21.80 x 5.20 m
Building Materials: brownish to yellow limestone, miḥrāb white limestone. The threshold of the entrance is a reused inverted Roman lintel of reddish limestone.
Construction details: masonry of coarsely dressed lime stone in horizontal layers with accumulation of smaller flakes and pebbles packed in the joints. Earthen lime mortar with much charcoal in the joints. The semicircular miḥrāb was built more carefully of well smoothened white limestone blocks by dismantling part of the adjacent partition wall. The door to the second taberna was used as the entrance to the mosque while the other doors of the former shops were blocked.
Preservation: conserved excavated ruin, not in use for Muslim prayer.
Inscription(s): none known.
Date(s): Fatimid (according to excavation results).
Traveler Reports: none known.
Bibliography: Olávarri 1985; Arce 2016, 124.
Fig. 30.1 Sketch plan of mosque in the Sūq E portico (TMW- K, redrawn by NJ). 
Fig. 30.2 Total view of W façade of the Umayyad NE Sūq portico with alterations in the Fatimid period (TMW-K 2019). 
Fig. 30.3 Entrance with inverted Roman window lintel of reddish limestone as threshold (TMW-K 2019). 
Fig. 30.4 Interior view of qibla wall miḥrāb, view from N, opposite the door at E wall cistern with cover stone (TMW-K 2019). 