The Hassan Bek Mosque stands on HaYarkon Street at the northern edge of Arab Jaffa. It was built in the Ottoman style between 1916 and 1923, and World War I interrupted the work. Jaffa's Ottoman governor, Hassan Bey, ordered it and bought the plot, reportedly to block Tel Aviv's westward expansion. Ben-Zion Gini, Jaffa's Jewish city engineer, designed it.
The original mosque measured 69 by 92 feet (21 by 28 m), with a courtyard, a prayer hall entered by a northern staircase and a single dome. It uses white limestone rather than the area's common kurkar, and the roof is concrete.
In 1979, trustees agreed to sell the compound for a shopping mall, but protests cancelled the deal. In October 2000, the mosque was stoned and an arson attempt was made. The sources conflict on the minaret: one section says it was rebuilt at twice its height in the 1980s, another places its restoration after 2000.
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