Editing Gaza City (section)

== Landmarks ==
[[File:-صورة من زاوية اخرى لقباب مسجد السيد هاشم.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sayed al-Hashim Mosque]] where the Islamic prophet [[Mohammed]]'s great-grandfather, [[Hashim ibn Abd Manaf]] (c. 464-497), is thought to be buried.]] 
[[File:Gaza War Cemetery 3.jpg|thumb|right|[[Gaza War Cemetery|World War I Cemetery in Gaza]]]]

Landmarks in Gaza include the [[Great Mosque of Gaza|Great Mosque]] in the Old City. Originally a pagan temple, it was consecrated a Greek Orthodox church by the Byzantines,<ref>Jacobs, 1998, p.451</ref> then a mosque in the 8th century by the Arabs. The Crusaders transformed it into a church, but it was reestablished as a mosque soon after Gaza's reconquest by the Muslims.<ref name="Sheehan" /> It is the oldest and largest in the Gaza Strip.<ref>Porter and Murray, 1868, p.250.</ref>

Other mosques in the Old City include the Mamluk-era [[Mosque of al-Sayed Hashem|Sayed Hashem Mosque]] that believed to house the tomb of Hashem ibn Abd al-Manaf in its dome.<ref>[http://www.webgaza.net/gaza_strip/tour/Sayyed_Hashem_Mosque.htm Sayyed Hashem Mosque] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224122300/http://www.webgaza.net/gaza_strip/tour/Sayyed_Hashem_Mosque.htm |date=2008-12-24 }} Web Gaza.</ref> There is also the nearby [[Kateb al-Welaya Mosque]] that dates back to 1334. In [[Shuja'iyya]] is the [[Ibn Uthman Mosque]], which was built by Nablus native Ahmad ibn Uthman in 1402, and the [[Mahkamah Mosque]] built by Mamluk [[majordomo]] Birdibak al-Ashrafi in 1455. In [[Tuffah]] is the [[Ibn Marwan Mosque]],<ref name="Sharon31" /> which was built in 1324 and houses the tomb of Ali ibn Marwan, a holy man.<ref name="MET" />

The [[Unknown Soldier's Square]], located in [[Rimal]], is a monument dedicated to an unknown Palestinian fighter who died in the 1948 War. In 1967, the monument was torn down by Israeli forces and remained a patch of sand,<ref>Jacobs, 1998, p.455.</ref> until a public garden was built there with funding from Norway. [[Qasr al-Basha]], originally a Mamluk-era villa that was used by Napoleon during his brief sojourn in Gaza, is located in the Old City and is today a girls' school. The Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery, often referred to as the British War Cemetery, contains the graves of fallen Allied soldiers in World War I; it sits {{convert|1.5|km|0|abbr=on}} northeast of the city center, in the Tuffah district, near [[Salah al-Din Road]].<ref name="Sheehan" /><ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/71701 Gaza War Cemetery] at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission</ref>