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Detailed Information
- Place Types Mosque
- Address Rue De La Kasbah, Kairouan, Tunisia
- Coordinate 35.6813583,10.1041467
- Website http://www.patrimoinedetunisie.com.tn/fr/monuments/mosquee_kair
- Rating 5
- Compound Code M4J3+GM Kairouan, Tunisia
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Fantastic place to visit and so much history surrounding this grand mosque. Please dress appropriately when visiting as it is Still an active place of worship. Their are so many pillars and one of the oldest mosques in Africa. Well worth a visit there is a museum nearby just a short walk away.
Historic place worth a quick visit, but rather small area accessible to visitors. Remember to save the ticket, as you can use it in other sights of the town.
A nice mosque what you will need to visit it. If you arrive so late, better to go to a carpet shop and ask them to let you go to the roof and watch from there. Many columns are from Ancient Christian temples. On some of them you can see even the cross.
The oldest mosque in Africa, which exhibits the decorative and architectural splendor of medieval Islamic civilization.
The first mosque at Kairouan, Tunisia, was founded in 670 CE by Uqba ibn Nafi, one of the Arab warriors spreading the newly born Islamic faith by conquest across northern Africa. Although the current mosque is often referred to as the Uqba Mosque, its buildings date from the mid-9th century, when Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabid dynasty (800–909). The Aghlabids made the Great Mosque not only a place of worship but also a renowned center of learning.
Intricate decoration.
From the outside, the mosque seems to be an austere building, dominated by its massive, three-tiered stone minaret. Inside its extensive prayer hall, however, austerity is replaced by exuberant decoration. The space is filled with marble, granite, and porphyry columns. The wooden ceiling is painted with elaborate designs; the minbar (pulpit) is finely carved in Indian teak; and the mihrab, the focus of prayer, is an elaborate display of marble and tilework. By the 11th century, Kairouan had gone into decline, but the mosque has remained one of the most sacred places in the Islamic world.
الله اكبر
Many great scholars from the early centuries studied in this blessed city and especially in this very mosque
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