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  • Great Mosque of Sfax

    Great Mosque of Sfax is the first mosque built in the historic city of Sfax, Tunisia. It was built during the Aghlabid rule of Ifriqiya in 849 AD, the same year of the construction of the city wall. The mosque was specifically commissioned during the period of Imam Sahnoun, a Maliki jurist from Kairouan.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Medina of Sfax.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Great Mosque of Sfax
    by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
    Great Mosque of Sfax
    by Fehmi bouguezzi, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
    Great Mosque of Sfax
    by Fehmi bouguezzi, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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    Great Mosque of Sfax

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2012

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    Mosques and Islamic Buildings

    Location

    Tunisia

    Sfax Governorate

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    9th Century AD

    Islamic

    Islamic

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    Islamic Monuments

     

     

     

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