(Also Known as the Mosque of Zayd ibn Thabit al-Ansari)
\nBuilt in 1187, following the recapture of the city by Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi (Saladin), this mosque is believed to have been constructed over the remains of an older Latin church.
\nThe origin of the name \u201cAl-Mashati\u201d remains unclear. It may either refer to the craft of comb-making (\u201cmush\u1e6d\u201d in Arabic), once practiced in the area, or to a person bearing the surname \u201cal-Mashati.\u201d
\nToday, the mosque stands as a testament to the layered religious and architectural history of the city, merging Ayyubid heritage with older foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Also Known as the Mosque of Zayd ibn Thabit al-Ansari) Built in 1187, following the recapture of the city by Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi (Saladin), this mosque is believed to have been constructed over the remains of an older Latin church. The origin of the name \u201cAl-Mashati\u201d remains unclear. It may either refer to the craft of comb-making (\u201cmush\u1e6d\u201d in Arabic), once practiced in the area, or to a person bearing the surname \u201cal-Mashati.\u201d Today, the mosque stands as a testament to the layered religious and architectural history of the city, merging Ayyubid heritage with older foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,285],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-2982","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\/2982","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=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}