The White Mosque

The White Mosque is an historic Ummayad mosque in the metropolis of Ramla, Israel. According to local Islamic subculture, the northwest section of the mosque contained the shrine of a famous Islamic saint, Nabi Salih. The minaret is also called the Tower of the Forty Martyrs. Muslim subculture courting again to 1467 claims that forty of the prophet Muhammads partners have been buried inside the mosque, which erroneously encouraged a Western Christian subculture from the 16th century that the White Mosque changed into originally a church devoted to the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.

The mosque itself become built of marble, while its courtyard turned into manufactured from different neighborhood stone. Much of the mosque changed into constructed in white marble with cypress. And cedar timber used for the doors. It had 4 facades organized on a cardinal axis, of which the japanese one is in disrepair. The minaret changed into the north of the mosque structure, square in form with 5 stories, each decorated with window niches, and a balcony towards the top. The minaret changed into possibly encouraged by means of Crusader design, but it turned into built by means of the Mamluks. The mosque also featured three underground cisterns with barrel-vaulted aisles under the vital court docket.