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One of my personal favourites in the not-so-professional architecture of Jerusalem is the Gazali Mosque, which is located 800 m south of the slightly more famous Al Aqsa Mosque.

You would never guess that mosques look like this in the third holiest city of Islam. But when building permits are not available, and any new construction might be demolished whenever noticed by the government, the non-Jewish residents of Jerusalem learn to build economically.

You can find this place (as long as it exists) 200 m south of St. Peter in Gallicantu church, half a kilometer south of the Old City of Jerusalem. The easiest way to get there is parking your car at the southern parking lot of Mount Zion (near the Tomb of David), walking 100 m down the road, past the observation platform, and then walk 400 m to the east along the unbuilt and empty hill (quite exactly along the route where the southern wall of Jerusalem was located in the ancient times). The Gazali Mosque is one of the first buildings on the hill when the empty wasteland ends.

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