441. Znaya, al- / al-Zannīyah | الزنية

al-Mafraq governorate

Jāmi‘

JADIS no. 2517.022

MEGA no. 7444

Coordinates: 32°12'00.0"N 36°06'11.4"E

32.200000, 36.103167

Plan: Rectangular.

Measurements: 10 m²

Exterior: 2 x 5 m (Rjoub - Housam 2013). These measurements could not be verified at the present building which had been surveyed by the GJU team on October 12th, 2019.

Interior: unknown.

Building Materials: local limestone.

Construction details: unknown.

Preservation: The old heritage mosque has been destroyed and entirely overbuilt by a structure dating to the 1940s or 1950s according to the cement skeleton technique. This recent building was enlarged somewhat later by an additional aisle in the same construction technique. The entire mosque was abandoned in the earlier 2000s. A new mosque has been constructed some 20 m to the SW, in a distance to the older building. Very few remains of the possible original mosque appear in the foundation area immediately E on the miḥrāb which protrudes from the exterior S wall.

Inscription(s): none known

Date(s): Umayyad (Rjoub - Housam 2013).

Traveler Reports: none known.

Bibliography: Rjoub – Housan 2013, 477 no. 35.