Sidna Omar Mosque

The Sidna Omar Mosque (Arabic: مسجد سيدنا عمر, lit.

[2] Obadiah Bartenura wrote that the mosque was built by a Jew who had converted to Islam.

The upper part of the minaret is narrower than its base in order to stabilize the structure.

[2] Some columns found inside the mosque have led to it being associated with the Crusader Church of St Martin in the late nineteenth century;[5] according to Burgoyne since the columns are in their secondary use "this tenuous link between the mosque and the church cannot be maintained.

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Location of the mosque, between the Armenian and Jewish quarters, in a 1936 Survey of Palestine map
19th century depiction, described as the "Minaret of Omar", showing a muezzin in the balcony chanting the call to prayer