List of mosques in Algeria
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This is a list of mosques in Algeria. According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowment in 2006, there are around 15,000 mosques in Algeria as a whole, of which 450 are in the capital city of Algiers. 90% of which are built after the independence of Algeria in 1962.[1]
Name | Images | Location | Year | Remarks |
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Sidi El Haloui | Tlemcen, Algeria | 1353 | Built by the Marinid Sultan Abou Inane Fares in honor of Abou Abdallah Echoudsy , a qadi of Seville accused of witchcraft and conspiring against the Zayyanid monarch under the Marinid occupation of the city. | |
Tlemcen, Algeria | Built by Youssef Ibn Tachfine under the Almoravid occupation of the city. | |||
1st November of 1954 Great Mosque | Batna | 2003 | ||
Ouzellaguen | 2011 | |||
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque | Oran | 2015 | ||
Abdellah Ben Salem Mosque | Oran | 1918 | ||
Abu Farès Mosque | Algiers | 1865 | ||
Souk Ahras | 2011 | |||
Ali Bitchin Mosque | Algiers | 1622 | ||
Bouira | 1652 | |||
Algiers | 1897 | |||
El Barani Mosque | Algiers | 1653 | ||
Oran | 1792 | |||
Djama’a al-Djedid | Algiers | 1660 | ||
Great Mosque of Algiers | Algiers | 1097[2] | ||
Emir Abdelkader Mosque | Constantine | 1994 | ||
Ghardaia | 10th century | |||
Hassan Pasha Mosque | Oran | 1796 | ||
Oran | 1792-1799 | |||
Jemma Al Djazair | Algiers | 2019 | ||
Blida | 1533 | Renovated and expanded in 1981 | ||
Ketchaoua Mosque | Algiers | 1612 | ||
Mansourah Mosque | Tlemcen | 1302-1303 | ||
El Mechouar Mosque | Tlemcen | 1310 | ||
Great Mosque of Nedroma | Nedroma | 1145 | ||
El Rahman Mosque | Cherchell | 1574 | ||
Safir Mosque | Algiers | 1534 | ||
Salah Bey Mosque | Annaba | 1791-1792 | ||
Shrine of Sidi Abder Rahman | Algiers | 1471 | Commemorates Sidi Abder Rahman El Thaelebi, a renowned Islamic scholar | |
Sidi Boumediene Mosque | Tlemcen | 1339 | Preserves the tomb of Abu Madyan, an influential Sufi | |
Mila | 678[3] | Probably the oldest Mosque in Algeria | ||
Sidi Bellahsen Mosque | Tlemcen | 1290 | ||
Annaba | 1033 | |||
Mausoleum of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine | Algiers | 1791 | Preserves the tomb of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine, the founder of Rahmaniyya Sufi order and one of the seven Patron Saints of Algiers. | |
Sidi Okba Mosque | Sidi Okba | 686[4] | ||
Sidi Ramadan Mosque | Algiers | 1097 | ||
Great Mosque of Tlemcen | Tlemcen | 1136[5][6] | ||
Algiers | 1951 |
See also[]
References[]
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- ^ "Fountain in Mosque of El Kebir, Algiers, Algeria". World Digital Library. 1899. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
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