The Great Mosque
The mosque is located in the center of Gaza City at the end of Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, and was named in honor of the second of Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab. It is said that the mosque was built over an ancient temple of Marnas, then converted into a Byzantine church and then into a mosque at the beginning of the Islamic conquests. The current plan of the mosque preserved parts of the church built by the Frankish Normans in the twelfth century AD, which was built in the Gothic style. The mosque was rebuilt and expanded during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, and the minaret was built during the Mamluk period and is one of the most prominent components of the mosque.