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Map of Kairouan (1916) showing the location of its Great Mosque in the northeast corner of the medina The outside has many buttresses. Here is the northwest corner. Here is the northwest corner. View of the southern façade Dusk panorama of the mosque
Plan_grande_mosquee_kairouan.jpg: Collection personnelle de Bertrand Bouret / *derivative work: Habib M'henni This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape . This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version.
English: Three-dimensional views of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia. From left to right: zoom on the south wall (seen from the outside), global view of the mosque, zoom on the minaret seen from the court.
The city's main landmark is the Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba (also known as the Great Mosque of Kairouan) which is one of the most impressive and largest Islamic monuments in North Africa. Originally built when Kairouan was founded in 670 AD, the mosque currently occupies an area of over 9,000 square metres (97,000 sq ft) and is one of the oldest ...
This mosque, also called the Mosque of Uqba, extends over an area of about 9,000 square meters. Founded in 670 AD by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi, it dates, in its present form, from the 9th century. Besides the fact of being the oldest mosque in the Muslim West, the Great Mosque of Kairouan is a remarkable example of North African Islamic ...
English: Minaret of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia. This minaret is a square-plan tower consisting of three superimposed stories of gradual size.
The Great Mosque of Kairouan, rebuilt by Ziyadat Allah I in 836. One of the most important Aghlabid monuments is the Great Mosque of Kairouan, which was completely rebuilt by the emir Ziyadat Allah I in 836, although various additions and repairs were effected later which complicate the chronology of its construction. [62]
Oqba Ibn Nafi Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia. Vue partielle de la maqsura de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan, Tunisie. Date: 5 November 2007, 01:04: Source: جامع عقبة بن نافع، القيروان، تونس: Author: مهدي الجويني from Tunis, Tunisia