62. Bēt ‘Idis | بيت إيدس

Irbid Governorate

Jāmi‘ al-Miqdād ibn ‘Umar.

JADIS no. 2120066

MEGA no. 46704 / 10510.

Coordinates: 32°26'08.0"N 35°41'53.0"E

32.435556, 35.698056

Plan: The original plan is not anymore retrievable since the historical mosque has been replaced in recent time by a new construction in skeleton concrete technique.

Measurements: unknown.

Exterior: unknown.

Interior: unknown.

Building Materials: local light brown limestone.

Construction details: The new mosque is built of limestone blocks, plastered and painted with whitewash with a light blue linear decoration from outside. The N exterior wall is neither plastered nor painted; it still displays the original limestone with a centered door and two windows from the right and the left. At the exterior NE corner an external staircase from the N leads to the rooftop for the prayer call.

Preservation: new building permanently in use for Muslim prayer.

Inscription(s): none reported.

Date(s): Islamic (unspecified, MEGA)

Traveler Reports: “Das bei der Moschee aufbewahrte Fragment eines frühchristlichen Chorschrankenpfeilers ist das einzige bedeutendere archäologische Relikt, das sich erhalten zu haben scheint.” (Mittmann 1970).

Bibliography: For taxation of the village in the Ottoman registers see Hütteroth-Abdulfattah 1977, 166 s.v. Nāhiya Kūra, Za'āmā wa tīmār, Bayt Īdis; for antiquities see Mittmann 1970, 56 no. 30; Daire 1988, 52 s.v. Bet Idis; Michel 2001, 422; Melhem 2002, 51-60; Stilkacheva 2018, 287 s.v. Bayt ‘Idis; Taan 2019, 65-66 figs. 3.