Tunisian religious building and site of Islamic worship
Great Mosque of Kairouan
Late afternoon panorama of the mosque
Religion
Affiliation
Islam
Status
Active
Location
Location
Kairouan, Tunisia
Architecture
Style
Aghlabid, Islamic
Groundbreaking
670
Minaret(s)
1
Interior view of the hypostyle prayer hall in the Mosque of Uqba (Great Mosque of Kairouan)
The Great Mosque of Kairouan (Arabic: جامع القيروان الأكبر), also known as the Mosque of Uqba (جامع عقبة بن نافع), is a mosque situated in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan, Tunisia and is one of the largest Islamic monuments in North Africa.[1]
Established by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi in the year 50 AH (670AD/CE) at the founding of the city of Kairouan, the mosque occupies an area of over 9,000 square metres (97,000 sq ft). It is one of the oldest places of worship in the Islamic world, and is a model for all later mosques in the Maghreb.[2] Its perimeter, of about 405 metres (1,329 ft), contains a hypostyle prayer hall, a marble-paved courtyard and a square minaret. In addition to its spiritual prestige,[3] the Mosque of Uqba is one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture,[4][5][6] notable among other things for the first Islamic use of the horseshoe arch.
Extensive works under the Aghlabids two centuries later (9th Cent.AD/CE) gave the mosque its present aspect.[7] The fame of the Mosque of Uqba and of the other holy sites at Kairouan helped the city to develop and expand. The university, consisting of scholars who taught in the mosque, was a centre of education both in Islamic thought and in the secular sciences.[8] Its role at the time can be compared to that of the University of Paris in the Middle Ages.[9] With the decline of the city from the mid-11th century, the centre of intellectual thought moved to the University of Ez-Zitouna in Tunis.[10]
^ || Géotunis 2009 :: Kairouan ||
^Great Mosque of Kairouan (discoverislamicart.org)
Archived 2013-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
^"Great Mosque of Kairouan – Kairouan, Tunisia". Archived from the original on 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
^"Kairouan – UNESCO World Heritage Centre". Archived from the original on 2022-08-23. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
^"Kairouan 499" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
^ The Great Mosque (kairouan-cci2009.nat.tn)[dead link][permanent dead link]
^(in French) M’hamed Hassine Fantar,
De Carthage à Kairouan: 2000 ans d’art et d’histoire en Tunisie,
éd. Agence française d’action artistique,
Paris, 1982,
p. 23
^ Wilfrid Knapp and Nevill Barbour, North West Africa : a political and economic survey,
Editions Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 1977,
page 404
^ Henri Saladin, Tunis et Kairouan,
Editions Henri Laurens,
Paris, 1908,
page 118
^ Mahmud Abd al-Mawla,
L’université zaytounienne et la société tunisienne,
éditions Maison Tiers-Monde,
Tunis, 1984,
page 33
and 29 Related for: Great Mosque of Kairouan information
The GreatMosqueofKairouan (Arabic: جامع القيروان الأكبر), also known as the Mosqueof Uqba (جامع عقبة بن نافع), is a mosque situated in the UNESCO World...
Souk of Kairouan Tunisia Hotel Piscines des Aghlabides Salat of Tarawih in GreatMosqueKairouan's significance in Islam List ofmosques in Kairouan The Station...
period, the GreatMosqueofKairouan, was a model for mosque architecture in the region. It features one of the oldest minarets and contains one of the oldest...
hypostyle in the GreatMosqueofKairouan, Tunisia Ottoman-style prayer hall of the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey Wooden prayer hall of the Järvenpää...
One of the finest examples of the hypostyle-plan mosques is the GreatMosqueofKairouan (also called the Mosqueof Uqba) in the city ofKairouan, Tunisia...
width ratio of around 3:1.: 79 One of the oldest minarets still standing is that of the GreatMosqueofKairouan in Tunisia, built in 836 and well-preserved...
its first mosque, and the GreatMosqueofKairouan was constructed on the same year. This mosque has served as a model of all later mosques in the Maghreb...
no means all of the oldest known minaret towers in the world. The oldest minaret still surviving is that of the GreatMosqueofKairouan in Tunisia. It...
practice of worship. (example: the prayer hall of the GreatMosqueofKairouan in Tunisia). A hall church is a church with a nave and side aisles of approximately...
early greatmosques. Founded in 670, it dates in its present form largely from the 9th century. The GreatMosqueofKairouan is constituted of a three-tiered...
spaces are related to the central chamber by the golden ratio. The GreatMosqueofKairouan (built by Uqba ibn Nafi c. 670 C.E.) uses the golden ratio in the...
different from that of the GreatMosqueofKairouan, the structure of the building is very different.: 24 It is adjacent to the older Ribat of Sousse, which...
same mosque at later points. The oldest maqsura in the Islamic world to be preserved in situ is the wooden maqsura of the GreatMosqueofKairouan, commissioned...
same time, the GreatMosqueofKairouan considered as the oldest and most prestigious sanctuary in the western Islamic world. This part of Islamic territory...
publication of an article in an Egyptian journal in 1897 criticizing the conservation of the collections of the GreatMosqueofKairouan. Later in 1948...
emirs sponsored building projects, notably the rebuilding of the GreatMosqueofKairouan, and the kingdom developed an architectural style which combined...
the middle of the wall opposite the qibla wall. Among them, the minaret of the GreatMosqueofKairouan in Tunisia, dating from 836, is one of the oldest...
city ofKairouan was established as a base for further operations and capital city of the North African province. The GreatMosqueofKairouan was founded...
The GreatMosqueof Mahdiya (Arabic: الجامع الكبير في المهدية) is a mosque that was built in the tenth century in Mahdia, Tunisia. Located on the southern...
Delhi, India's Jama Masjid. The GreatMosqueofKairouan also called the Mosqueof Uqba is at the same time the oldest mosque in North Africa (founded in...
before the disappearance of the red twilight from the west. In a mosque, the muezzin broadcasts the call to prayer at the beginning of each interval. Because...
Republic wants to outlaw Homer's great poetic art, and laughter as well. In Ion, Socrates gives no hint of the disapproval of Homer that he expresses in the...
(in Tunisia) and its GreatMosque also known as the Mosqueof Uqba; the GreatMosqueofKairouan is the ancestor of all the mosques in the western Islamic...
and the Emirate of Sicily. A major historical center of Maliki teaching, from the 9th to 11th centuries, was in the Mosqueof Uqba of Tunisia. One who...
T-plan is present in the 9th-century GreatMosqueofKairouan in Tunisia, for example, and in later Moroccan mosques. In addition to their greater width...
Global Information
