An-Nasr Mosque (Nablus Crusader Church)

Also known as An-Nasr Mosque, Mosque of Victory, Masjid an-Nasr

The An-Nasr (Victory) Mosque in the heart of the Old City of Nablus stands on the site of a Crusader church, itself built over an earlier Byzantine basilica. The Crusaders, who governed the city as Naples in the twelfth century and held it as a royal demesne after King Baldwin II granted it to his daughter Princess Alice, raised the church on the central square of the Frankish quarter. After Saladin's reconquest in 1187 the building was converted into a mosque and given the name 'Victory' to commemorate the Ayyubid triumph at Hattin. The present mosque, with its famous green dome and slender Mamluk-style minaret, preserves substantial twelfth-century Crusader masonry in its lower walls and incorporates Byzantine-era columns as spolia in the prayer hall.

Coordinates: 32.2206°, 35.2603°

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