Ḥamzah Mosque – Al-Rawḍah
مسجد حمزة – الروض ة
Monument description
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Architectural and cultural value
Construction style and built date: The layout of the Mosque follows the style of Mosques, consisting in a tiled Prayer Hall, a flat roof supported by wooden beams resting directly on the capitals of stone columns and arches. A small Mosque called the Al-Azhar Mosque was previously on this site and its construction is attributed to the great Companion of the Prophet, Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas
Components of the Mosque: Prayer Hall, Minaret, Al-Manzilah, Berkah, Ablution Units, pond, Sabil and traditional baths.
- Justifications for intervention:
- 1. The building has been neglected for lack of funding
- 2. Preserving the monument and preventing further damage
- 3. Restoration of damages to the Mosque resulting from the air strikes to the northern part of the Old City of Sana‘a
- 4. Contribute to the restoration of damaged monuments in a proper manner in order to keep Old Sana‘a in the World Heritage List.
- Monument conditions:
- Damages resulting from the old building or building and time factors, damages resulting from wrong repairs, damages resulting from previous poor restoration, and damages resulting from water leakage into the mosque, and these damages include.
1 – Existence and cracking of a substance, Qadad in the water pool and walls and surfaces.
2 – Cracks on the roof of the prayer house.
3 – The problem of simple subsidence, moisture and salinity in the foundations.
4- The collapse of some parts of the stone walls of the settlements and the northern gate of the pond
- Treatment:
- – Restoration and re-layer Alqodd in the affected places.Re-dressing and making a coast to drain rainwater on the northern facade.
– Reconstruct the dilapidated walls.
– stop longitudinal cracks
– Treating damaged foundations and solving the problem of moisture.
– Treating roofs and preventing rainwater intrusion.
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