{"id":2980,"date":"2025-07-24T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/the-harbour-mosque\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:18:27","slug":"the-harbour-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/the-harbour-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harbour Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the rarest and most architecturally unique mosques in Latakia, Al-Mina Mosque\u2014also locally known as \u201cJami\u2018 al-Iskala\u201d (the Dock Mosque)\u2014stands out for both its distinctive maritime location and elevated design.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1748 by al-Hajj al-Rais Hammouda bin Ibrahim al-Tunisi al-Maghribi, the mosque was constructed above old port warehouses, giving it the appearance of being \u201csuspended\u201d over the harbor\u2014hence the name \u201cthe Hanging Mosque\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>An inscription at the site praises the founder, stating:<br \/>\n\u201cThis mosque was graciously established by al-Hajj al-Rais Hammoud, earning immense reward and great honor in return.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the rarest and most architecturally unique mosques in Latakia, Al-Mina Mosque\u2014also locally known as \u201cJami\u2018 al-Iskala\u201d (the Dock Mosque)\u2014stands out for both its distinctive maritime location and elevated design. Built in 1748 by al-Hajj al-Rais Hammouda bin Ibrahim al-Tunisi al-Maghribi, the mosque was constructed above old port warehouses, giving it the appearance of being \u201csuspended\u201d over the harbor\u2014hence the name \u201cthe Hanging Mosque\u201d. An inscription at the site praises the founder, stating: \u201cThis mosque was graciously established by al-Hajj al-Rais Hammoud, earning immense reward and great honor in return.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,285],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latakia","category-religious-monuments-latakia","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}