Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
State	Israel/Palestine
City/site	Sede Boqer
Primary reference	Cohen, Rudolf, 1985. Archaeological Survey of Israel, Map of Sde Boqer – West (167), Jerusalem: Department of Antiquities and Museums, 22*, 65-66. http://survey.antiquities.org.il/index.html#/MapSurvey/66/site/13324
Additional reference I	Sharon, Moshe, 1985. “Appendix: Arabic Inscriptions from Sede-Boqer - Map 167”, in: Rudolph Cohen, Archaeological Survey of Israel, Map of Sde Boqer – West (167), Jerusalem: Department of Antiquities and Museums, 31*-35*, 94-106
Additional reference II	Magness, Jodi, 2003. The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 138-139. https://archive.org/details/TheArchaeologyof_612 (free download)
Additional reference III	Avni, Gideon, 1994. “Early Mosques in the Negev Highlands: New Archaeological Evidence on Islamic Penetration of Southern Palestine”, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 294: 83-100. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/1357155
Latitude	30.8817345591
Longitude	34.7907825288
Location: exact/approximate	exact
Date of the mosque according to former research	Early Islamic
Date basis: historical texts, mosque parallels, inscriptions, datable objects, C14, stratigraphy, construction techniques	inscriptions and datable objects
Early datable evidence	a coin from the site, 775-785
Additional datable evidence I	inscriptions on the site, 165/781
Additional datable evidence II	clay lamps from the site, the 6th-8th century
Additional datable evidence III	Fine Byzantine Ware cups from the site, the 8th-9th century
Concluded date for the mosque	781
Basis for mosque identification (in addition to orientation)	a mihrab
An earlier sanctuary: church/other	debatable
A general layout: a single hall, two-three halls, complex, a qibla wall alone	two halls
Size of the mosque (in m)	5*12 (12*14 including the courtyard)
Form of the mosque: square, rectangular with longitudinal direction (basilica), rectangular with transverse direction, other	transversal
A mihrab is present	yes
The internal form of the mihrab: square/semicircular/horseshoe	semicircular
The mihrab projects/is situated inside the wall	projects
Depth of the mihrab (in m)	1
A courtyard is present	yes
An evidence for columns or piers exists	no
Construction materials	stone, with a filling of gravel
Floor	(bedrock)