Player #9

six mosques/maqāms in palestine abandoned/destroyed/appropriated after the 1948 nakba:

mosque in the former village of zarnuqa. the land of this former village was near-entirely razed and incorporated in exclusively jewish settlements, like the city of rehovot and kibbutz givat brenner.

al-nabi yusha' mosque in the village of the same name. the mosque also serves as a shrine to al-nabi yusha' (the prophet joshua). occupation forces dropped bombs on the village, burying it under rubble, and today it's fenced around with barbed wire.

the mosque of the village of al-ghabisiyya. former villagers took up court proceedings against the the occupying government to allow their return, but were refused; in 1955 the government destroyed the village's lands with the exception of its mosque. descendants of villagers later attempted to petition to allow them to renovate the mosque but were again refused. today descendants displaced within palestine still visit to pray outside of it.

salame mosque in the former village of salama. after the village was forcibly depopulated, it was resettled with jewish war refugees and later new jewish immigrants, and eventually incorporated as the kfar shalem neighborhood (named for the former village) of tel aviv. the mosque remains abandoned.

mosque in the village of al-faluja. after an egyptian brigade repelled occupation forces' attacks, the village was handed over to the occupiers in a ceasefire on the condition that villagers be treated well. the occupiers violated this agreement almost immediately, and instituted a campaign (and later denied that they did so) threatening remaining villagers to leave. only the foundations of the mosque still remain - and descendants of villagers displaced within palestine still make pilgrimage to it.