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  • Great Mosque of Kairouan

  • Great Mosque of Kairouan

    Great Mosque of Kairouan or the Mosque of Uqba is a historical mosque located in the historic town of Kairouan, Tunisia. It was built by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi in 670 AD and it is one of the oldest places of worship in the Islamic world, as well as a model for all later mosques in the Maghreb. Under the Aghlabids in the 9th century AD, huge works gave the mosque its present aspect. The Mosque of Uqba was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 as part of Kairouan.
    The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Kairouan.
    World Heritage Site
    Great Mosque of Kairouan
    by Marek Szarejko, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Great Mosque of Kairouan
    by Andrew Watson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Great Mosque of Kairouan
    by Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Great Mosque of Kairouan

    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    1988

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    Mosques and Islamic Buildings

    Location

    Tunisia

    Kairouan Governorate

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    7th Century AD

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    Islamic

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    Islamic Monuments

     

     

     

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