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The minaret and prayer hall as photographed in 2014. The mosque is named after Murad Agha, an Ottoman ruler of Tajura who commissioned its construction. It was either built in 1552 while Murad was Beylerbey of Tripoli, [1] or in around 1553–1556 when Murad returned to Tajura after being replaced as beylerbey by Dragut. [2]
Mosque of Ahmad al-Qaramanli in Tripoli (1736–1738). The Ottomans conquered Tripoli in 1551 and made it the capital of a province roughly corresponding to modern-day Libya. . The first Ottoman governor, known as Dragut or Darghut (d. 1565), repaired and redeveloped the city's fortifications, giving the old city the roughly pentagonal shape it has tod
The As-Sahabah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الصحابة) is a Sunni Islam mosque and adjacent cemetery, located at the Maydan Al-Sahaba Square in the city of Derna, Libya. [1] [2] The mosque was built in the 1970s on the site of a 7th-century cemetery containing the graves of the Sahaba who were slain by the Byzantine armies during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. [2]
Name Image Location Year/century Remarks As-Sahabah Mosque: Derna: 1975 Attached to the mosque is a cemetery containing the tombs of seventy martyrs who participated in the Battle of Mamma in 688. Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque: Tobruk: Atiq Mosque: Benghazi: early 15th century [1] Atiq Mosque, Awjila: Awjila: 12th century Bayat al-Ridwan (بيعة ...
The Sidi Darghut Mosque was the first Ottoman style mosque to be built in Tripoli. The building has a T-shaped prayer hall, with a plan bearing some similarities to mosques found in Anatolia . The Hospitaller church was a small rectangular building with timber beams supporting a flat roof, and when it was converted into a mosque new wings were ...
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The Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque (Arabic: مسجد علي بن أبي طالب) is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Tobruk, in Butnan District of Libya. See also [ edit ]
The Atiq Mosque (Arabic: المسجد العتيق, lit. 'old mosque') is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in the oasis village of Awjila, in the Sahara desert of the Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya. The mosque is located in the old city area of Awjila. [1] It dates from the 12th century and has unusual conical domes made of mudbrick and ...