Al-Atassi Mosque

The Al-Atassi Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلْأَتَاسِيّ, romanized: Masjid al-ʾAtāsīy), also known as the Great Al-Atassi Mosque, is a mosque in Homs, Syria. It is situated in a public park on the site of a former graveyard at the foot of the mound on which the remains of the citadel stand.

Al-Atassi Mosque
مَسْجِد ٱلْأَتَاسِيّ
The mosque in 2010
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Ecclesiastical or organisational status	Mosque
Status	Active
Location
Location	Homs
Country	Syria
Location of the mosque in Syria
Geographic coordinates	34°43′24″N 36°42′43″E
Architecture
Type	Islamic architecture
Style	Ottoman
Founder	Abdul Latif Pasha al-Atassi
Funded by	Al-Atassi family
Completed	1913 CE
Construction cost	LS 50,000,000 (US$1,000,000)
Specifications
Capacity	3,000 worshippers
Interior area	3,000 m2 (32,000 sq ft)
Domes	18 total; 1 large 4 medium 13 small
Minaret	1
Materials	Aleppo marble; ivory
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Completed in 1913 CE, the mosque is named after Hashim al-Atassi, three-time Syrian President from the Al-Atassi family, a prominent landowning and politically active family from Homs. The mosque features a late Ottoman style that combines lead domes and slender hexagonal minarets. It is notable for the colors of the Aleppo marble in the mihrab and the ivory pulpit.^[2]

Gallery

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  The mosque in 2012

See also

• Syria portal
• Islam portal

• Atassi family
• Islam in Syria
• List of mosques in Syria