جامع الزيواني في الموصل- دراسة آثارية

Al-Zaywani Mosque considers as one of ancient Mosul mosques, which dates back to the time of the Galilee rule (1193-1249A.H 1779-1834), located in the Bab Al-Bayd district, which made voluntarily by many people in several stages, most notably the governor of Mosul Suleiman Pasha Al-Jalili and his sister Hamra Khatun, called by Al-Zaywani in relation to Sheikh Mohammed Al-Zaywani, who built the mosque on the ruins of his dome, consists of a rectangular chapel with a deviation in his left edges approximately (6 m), the center of the worship place (Qibla) wall is a hollow marble niche and a marble platform that was removed in later periods and replaced by a three-stairs platform, the Qibla wall preceded by three cast coppers and six tiles, the largest of which is the slab of the Mihrab, above this slab is topped by a pointed hemispherical dome based on an eight-sided structural neck erected to convert the square projection of the slab into eight-sided to facilitate the standing of the dome, and the walls of the prayer house are surrounded from the top by a decorative and written ribbon, but it was removed in later periods, the entrance if of prayer house is by two gates preceded by a passageway based on arcsde on architectural composition of the multi-nodes marble, as it is located in the courtyard of the mosque and near the main entrance a beautiful brick red minaret, which relied in its decoration on the manipulation of the position of bricks, and the mosque has two entrances, one of which is the main on the west side and the other is subsidiary on the east side, and has passed the mosque has many renewing and renovations in different periods of time.

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