The Sidna Ali Mosque is a Muslim place of worship

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

 located in the depopulated village of Al-Haram

Al-Haram, Jaffa

Al-Haram, also Sayyiduna Ali or Sidna Ali, was an Arab village in the District of Jaffa in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 16 km north of Jaffa, adjacent to the ruins of the ancient city of Arsuf, also known as Apollonia...

 on the beach in the northern part of Herzliya

Herzliya

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 in Israel

Israel

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History

The mosque was originally a 13th century Mamluk

Mamluk

A Mamluk was a soldier of slave origin, who were predominantly Cumans/Kipchaks The "mamluk phenomenon", as David Ayalon dubbed the creation of the specific warrior...

 construction built in honour of one of Saladin

Saladin

Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb , better known in the Western world as Saladin, was an Arabized Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and founded the Ayyubid dynasty. He led Muslim and Arab opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant...

s lieutenants who fought bravely against the Crusader

Crusades

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s and died in a battle on the hill on which the mosque now stands. His shrine

Shrine

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 is now housed within the building.

It now serves both as a mosque and as a religious school

Madrasah

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Architecture

During the turn of the century it was rebuilt as a caravanserai

Caravanserai

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 and went through restorations in 1992.