Al-Washalī Mosque – Old Ṣan‘ā’
مسجد الوشلي- صنعاء القديم ة
Monument description
It is considered one of the prominent and distinguished archaeological monuments in the Old City of Sana‘a. Some narrations indicate that his building was old, and he was known before he was called Al-Washali, in Al-Ajdham Mosque and the Mosque of Rabah bin Yazid Al-Abed. It is mentioned in one of the sources of the historian Ahmed Al-Hajri where it says that the Mosque was originally the old Mosque of Al-Azham, in which Imam Yahya bin Muhammad studied. He died in the year 696 AH, as many historians have narrated, while he was buried next to it, and then became famous. According to the granddaughter of Imam Al-Mansur Billah Muhammad bin Ali Al-Washli bin Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Al-Hassan bin Al-Qasim bin Al-Hassan bin Zaid bin Al-Hassan bin Ali bin Abi Talib died in 910 AH. A tomb was next to the Mosque, which was renewed and its architecture mentioned Imam Al-Mutawakkil Sharaf Al-Din Ibn Yahya Ibn Shams Al-Din Ibn Al-Imam al-Mahdi in the first half of the century Tenth Hijri, which documented.
Architectural and cultural value
Construction style and built date: The layout of the Mosque came in the style of mosques, which consist of a Prayer Hall with a flat roof supported by wooden beams resting directly on the capitals of stone columns and arches. This monument was built before the 10th century AH.
Components of the Mosque: Prayer Hall, Minaret, Al-Manzilah, Berkah, Ablution Unit, Sabil and traditional baths.
- Justifications for intervention:
- 1 – Neglecting the competent authorities in carrying out periodic restoration work due to the lack of budgets for the repairs.
2 – Preserving the monument from disappearance and stopping the damage caused to the monument from expanding.
3 – Restoration of the damage to the mosque resulting from the flight strikes of the southern part of the old city of Sana’a.
4 – Contribute to the restoration of damaged monuments in a proper manner in order to keep Old Sana’a In the World Heritage List..
- Monument conditions:
- Damages resulting from the old building or building and time factors, damages resulting from wrong repairs, damages resulting from previous poor restoration, and damages resulting from water leakage into the mosque, and these damages include.
1 – Existence and cracking of a substance, Qadad in the water pool and walls and surfaces.
2 – Cracks on the roof of the prayer house.
3 – The problem of simple subsidence, moisture and salinity in the foundations.
4 – The collapse of some parts of the stone walls of the settlements and the northern gate of the pond
- Treatment:
- – Restoration and re-layer Alqodd in the affected places.Re-dressing and making a coast to drain rainwater on the northern facade.
– Reconstruct the dilapidated walls.
– stop longitudinal cracks
– Treating damaged foundations and solving the problem of moisture.
– Treating roofs and preventing rainwater intrusion.
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