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- Place Types Mosque
- Address Gafsa, Tunisia
- Coordinate 34.4149485,8.7855218
- Website Unknown
- Rating 5
- Compound Code CQ7P+X6 Gafsa, Tunisia
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The Great Mosque of Gafsa was built during the Aghlabid era during the third century of the Hijra, corresponding to the ninth AD. This religious and historical landmark still stands as a testament to the civilization of Gafsa. The Great Mosque consists of a spacious courtyard surrounded by porticoes on all four sides, and a prayer hall supported by columns and capitals that add to the beauty of the prayer house. For reference, the mosque has known maintenance and undertaking work throughout history, just as the mosque is a tributary of the Zaytuna Mosque and was a scientific beacon that many students flocked to in order to seek knowledge.
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The mosque of Sidi Saheb el-Zaman, or the Great Mosque, as it is called in Gafsa (about 350 km south of the capital Tunis), was built during the Aghlabid period (184 AH / 800 AD-296 AH / 909 AD) in the ninth century AD, as evidenced by a marble plaque on one of its walls .
This mosque was erected on the ruins of a church, as shown by the drawings of a cross on columns and crowns of the prayer house covered with plaster.
"There is no precise date for the construction of this mosque," says Sheikh Mahmoud bin Mukhtar Fakht, imam of the mosque, director of the Zaytoon education branch in the province of Gafsa with a population of about 337,000 out of an estimated 11 million.
Zaytoun education is a traditional family education that goes back to the Zaytouna Mosque and has branches throughout Tunisia
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