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Part 2
And the mosque from the inside is made up of a rectangular area that is overpowered by the modern traits, mincing Ottoman and
designs that have ran over it. And that is visible through through its military roof and its non decorative intermurals.
And in the middle of the southern intermural, there is inside the mihrab a knotted
And in the centre of the southern wall, there is the entrance of the mihrab (niche in wall indicating the direction for the Makkah) that is
knotted with a sharpened knot. And the other evidence shows that for this entrance that it used to anchor on two poles of marble in
every side except that they have lost the water.
And the malice of the entrance has been occupied with the knot of the mihrab and likewise the area above it with geometric patterns
of marble -felt and dinned into; black, white and brown. All of them return to the Ottoman restoration in this mosque.
And on the right of the mihrab, there is the wooden pulpit. And which appears to be from its common artistic and geometric appearance
that it is from the Ottoman Era
And in the front of the pulpit is the entrance door that leads to the steps and from that to the seat of the speaker and the area
that has a dome over it with an optic shape that is above a square area with small shapes that to some extent resemble the peaks of the
Mamluk pulpits.
And despite the small area of this mosque and whatever recent renovations have been made to it, it is counted as one of the most important
of the Syrian Mamluk mosques in the city of Damascus because it combines some of the categories of unique Islamic architecture
And the mosque is known today with the common people as "The Hanging Mosque" because it is above the level of the main road so that
people climb up to it by steps and below it are shops. This is from one side. And it's construction above a river through an knotted arch
from another side.
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