Great Mosque of Nablus (Crusader Church)

Also known as Al-Jami' al-Kabir, Nablus, Nablus Great Mosque, Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection (Nablus), Church of the Passion (Nablus)

The Great Mosque of Nablus — al-Jami' al-Kabir, the largest and oldest mosque of the Old City — occupies the shell of the Crusader cathedral of the Holy Resurrection (sometimes identified in twelfth-century sources as the Church of the Passion or the Church of St John). The Franks rebuilt an earlier Byzantine basilica into a major three-aisled Romanesque cathedral on this site in the 1160s, when Nablus served as a royal demesne and an occasional refuge for the court. After the city's fall to Saladin in 1187 the cathedral was converted into the Great Mosque, and the Crusader nave, the side aisle arcades, and the western portal were preserved in the mosque's fabric. The building was badly damaged in the 1927 Jericho earthquake and partially rebuilt, but substantial twelfth-century Frankish masonry — including the apse and two of the cathedral's three original portals — still survives.

Coordinates: 32.2204°, 35.2613°

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