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- Place Types Mosque
- Address C117, Sedouikech, Tunisia
- Coordinate 33.7216497,10.9119142
- Website Unknown
- Rating 5
- Compound Code PWC6+MQ Sedouikech, Tunisia
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A place to visit with a unique mosque completely underground
Recently renovated
Surrounded by olive trees, this Ibadite mosque goes unnoticed if it is not its current whiteness that contrasts with the color of the earth always dry. Two domes are visible at ground level and the rest is buried underground and that is what explains its name: "Jemaa Louta", "The Underground Mosque".
Was it built as an underground building or, in time, was it buried by sand?
After entering the building through a very narrow staircase we find two mihrabs, which is a bit weird and because of that some theory claims a Christian origin of this place as a former church.
Magnificent
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