Photograph: Flaminia Baldwin,  © Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF)Photograph: Flaminia Baldwin,  © Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF)Photograph: Flaminia Baldwin,  © Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF)


Name of Monument:

Al-Majidiyya Mosque

Location:

Beirut, Lebanon

Date of Monument:

1841

History:

In 1841, this ex-Ottoman fort was turned into a mosque and named after the Ottoman sultan 'Abd al-Majid I. The mosque was then enlarged and renovated in 1881 and in 1906. Its tall, pencil-shaped minaret is built in the typical Ottoman style, whereas the shorter minaret resembles the Beiruti-Mamluk style. The interior of the mosque has conserved the arches and vaulted ceilings of the Ottoman fort it once was.

Description:

Located by the coast, north of Beirut's downtown, al-Majidiyya Mosque was once an 18th century Ottoman defensive fort.

Citation of this web page:

Jeff El-Msanne "Al-Majidiyya Mosque" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monuments;AWE;lb;51;en

Prepared by: Jeff El-Msanne
Copyedited by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: LB 058

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