Cave and masjid of Saint Habib Neccar makami

 mountain, mosque, cave / caves

In the Antiquity, there was probably a pagan temple in place of this mosque. During the Christian era, it was converted into a church named after John the Baptist. In the Medieval Age, the city was captured first by the Rashidun Caliphate in 637, by the Byzantine Empire in 969, by the Seljuk Turks in 1084, by the Crusades in 1098, and by the Baibars of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1268. Concurrently in each case, the status of the building was changed from church to mosque and from mosque to church.[1][2] However, in the inscription of the mosque, it reads that it was rebuilt in 1275 soon after Baibars had converted it to a mosque.[3]

The mosque was demolished during the 1853 earthquake. It was rebuilt by the Ottomans. But the minaret is older. The shadirvan (fountain) is a later addition.