At the invitation of the Supreme Moslem Council, the authority responsible for the management of Moslem Holy Places, a report on the structural condition of the Aqsa, with a scheme for its repair, was prepared and presented in May 1938 by the late Mah-mud Ahmad Pasha, Director of the Department for the Preservation of Arab Monuments in the Egyptian Government. Its purpose is to bring together, and put on record, notes on the structure and archaeology of the mosque gathered by different members of the Department of Antiquities' who were able to watch the work as it proceeded intermittently between the years 1938 and 1942.
Extent: 192.
Size and dimensions of original material: Height 27.5cm, width 21cm, depth 3cm.
Condition of original material: good.
Custodial history: British school of Archeology in Jerusalem,Palestine.
Arrangement: Dewey Classification system.
Author(s)/Creator(s): Robert William Hamilton.
Publisher(s): Jerusalem: Published for the Govt. of Palestine by Oxford University Press, London, 1949.
Original institution reference: RBC 726.25 HAM.
