Sanaa
Al-Jala Mosque is one of the well-known mosques of the Old City of Sana'a, near the Sa'ila watercourse. It was built in 1091 AH (1680) by Imam al-Mahdi Ahmad…
Al-Jala Mosque is one of the well-known mosques of the Old City of Sana'a, near the Sa'ila watercourse. It was built in 1091 AH (1680) by Imam al-Mahdi Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Qasim in what had been the city's Jewish quarter. The prayer hall has a flat timber roof on dark stone columns, a carved wooden minbar and a mihrab framed in white carved plaster, with porches and an orchard beside the mosque. It stands between the Sa'ila and the Ibn al-Husayn Mosque.