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The Grand Mosque of Tangier (Arabic: مسجد طنجة الكبير) is the historic main mosque (Friday mosque) of Tangier, Morocco, located in the city's old medina.While the design of the current mosque dates from the early 19th century during the Alaouite period, the site has been occupied by a succession of religious buildings since antiquity.
The Dar al-Muwaqqit of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (marked by the double-arched window overlooking the courtyard). A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper, an officer charged with maintaining the correct times of prayer and communicating them to the muezzin (the person ...
The term is primarily used for the five daily prayers including the Friday prayer, which takes the place of the Dhuhr prayer and must be performed in a group of aibadat. Muslims believe the salah times were revealed by Allah to Muhammad. Prayer times are standard for Muslims in the world, especially the fard prayer times.
The main building consists mostly of an interior prayer hall as well as a smaller courtyard to the north which is enclosed by extensions of the prayer hall. The prayer hall is built in a hypostyle format and is divided into nine "naves" by rows of horseshoe arches running perpendicular to the southeastern qibla wall. The arches, in turn, form ...
The mihrab, a niche symbolizing the qibla (direction of prayer), is set in the middle of the qibla wall (the southern wall) of the prayer hall and is a central focus of its layout. The prayer hall has a "T"-plan, in that the central nave aligned with the mihrab and another transverse (i.e. perpendicular) aisle running along the qibla wall are ...
The Great Mosque of Fes el-Jdid (Arabic: الجامع الكبير) is the historic main Friday mosque of Fes el-Jdid, the royal city and Marinid-era citadel of Fes, Morocco. It is believed to have been founded in 1276, around the same time that the city itself was founded, making it the oldest mosque in Fes el-Jdid. [1] [2] [3]
The Kasbah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد القصبة), also known as the Moulay al-Yazid Mosque, [a] is a historic mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco.It was originally built by the Almohad ruler Yaqub al-Mansur in 1185–1190 CE.
The building was commissioned by King Hassan II to be the most ambitious structure ever built in Morocco. [9] It was designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau who had lived in Morocco, and was constructed by the civil engineering group Bouygues. [9] Work commenced on July 12, 1986, [13] and was conducted over a seven-year period ...