Hassan Bek Mosque

This guide to Hassan Bek Mosque in Tel Aviv starts on February 25, 1948, with gunfire raining down from this minaret onto the seafront below. You'll hear why an Ottoman governor built the mosque here in 1916, deliberately, to block the young Jewish town of Tel Aviv from expanding north, and how construction dragged through World War One before the mosque finally opened in 1923. The guide traces the neighborhood of Manshiya that grew up around it, and what became of it after 1948. Best heard looking up at the minaret rather than trying to enter the mosque.