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History The al-Tahhâm mosque was built in the early seventeenth
century by Prince Younès al-Maani, the younger brother of Fakhr-ed-Din II. It’s
minaret follows the Ottoman traditional style and is octagonal. It rises over a pointed
arch portal on the north side with four pyramidal buttresses supporting its base, and four
arched windows, each with a carved stone balcony screen. Supporting the buttresses are
chain design engaged pillars with stalactite capitals. The upper gallery is an overhanging
one decorated with a stalactite cornice and palm-leaf motif frieze. The gallery’s
balustrade screens are undecorated as are the eight posts supporting its octagonal
red-tiled "Chinese pagoda" roof. Called the "Prince’s Minaret",
it is one of Lebanon’s national treasures . The mosque itself is a plain box-like
structure with a marble mosaic fountain and a number of Byzantine granite columns with
Corinthian capitals re-used in the structure.
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