Fatima Khatun Mosque
The mosque is in the center of Jenin, west of the Al-Saraya building. This mosque was built at the end of the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent around the year 974 AH, corresponding to 1566 AD, by order of Mrs. Fatima Khatoun, the daughter of Abi al-Fadl Muhammad bin Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri, and the wife of the Bosnian Sultan Lala Mustafa Pasha. From the west, the mosque is bordered by the Ain Nini Canal (after the spring dried up, the vegetable market (Al-Hisba) was established), from the east by the road leading to the city of Nazareth, from the north by a secondary road from Nazareth Street, and from the west by the street heading to the city of Haifa.
During Mrs. Khatun's visit to Palestine, and her passage from the city of Jenin, she admired the location of this mosque and noticed that there was no place for worship, so she ordered to build the mosque. The area of the old building of the mosque is about 200 square meters, and the area of the land surrounding it is about three and a half dunums, and later it was expanded to reach an area of about 1000 square meters.
During the construction stages, several additions were attached to the mosque, such as a bakery, a public bath, a water fountain, and a hospice that was converted in subsequent periods into commercial stores. The mosque contains a large dome, considered the second largest in Palestine after the Dome of the Rock. It also includes a library that contains many books, and a chapel for women, and a minaret on the western side of the building.
The mosque's eastern side was damaged during the Battle of Al-Marj in 1799 AD when Napoleon's soldiers bombarded the area with cannons, and in 1927 AD, the mosque building cracked due to the great earthquake that struck Palestine. In the fifties of the last century, the Jenin Municipality expanded and renovated the mosque, removing the Turkish bathhouse and turning its area into a public square. Later this square became used as a vegetable market