The Tinmal Mosque or Great Mosque of Tinmal (also spelled Tinmel or Tin Mal; Tachelhit: ⵜⵉⵎⵣⴳⵉⴷ ⵏ ⵜⵉⵏⵎⵍ; Arabic: مسجد تنمل) is a 12th-century mosque located in the village of Tinmel in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Although no longer operating as a mosque today, its remains are preserved as a historic site. It was built at the site where Ibn Tumart, the founder of the Almohad movement, was buried and it is considered an important example of Almohad architecture.
The mosque was added to the Tentative List of potential UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1995. It suffered significant damage during the 2023 Marrakesh–Safi earthquake.[1][2]
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The TinmalMosque or Great Mosque of Tinmal (also spelled Tinmel or Tin Mal; Tachelhit: ⵜⵉⵎⵣⴳⵉⴷ ⵏ ⵜⵉⵏⵎⵍ; Arabic: مسجد تنمل) is a 12th-century mosque located...
mosques in Morocco open to non-Muslims, the other being the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. The prototype for the Tinmalmosque was the Great Mosque of...
in the TinmalMosque, which was built in the same period as the Kutubiyya, and in many later mosques such as the 16th-century Saadian mosques of Bab Doukkala...
el-Fnaa, a minaret of the Kharboush Mosque and parts of its walls collapsed, crushing vehicles below. The Kutubiyya Mosque was also damaged. Several buildings...
Great Mosque of Tlemcen (in Algeria) and the Mosque of Tinmal.: 232 Polylobed arches at the Almoravid Qubba in Marrakesh A polylobed arch in the Mosque of...
cupola inside the mihrab of the TinmalMosque in Morocco (circa 1148, Almohad period) Entrance portal of the Alaeddin Mosque in Niğde (1223) Muqarnas vault...
Almohad Kutubiyya and Tinmalmosques are often considered the prototypes of later Moroccan and Andalusi mosques, although the Great Mosque of Taza (later modified...
: 232–234 Some early examples appear in the Great Mosque of Tlemcen (in Algeria) and the Mosque of Tinmal.: 232 Interlacing polylobed arches at the Alcazaba...
Almohad Kutubiyya and Tinmalmosques are often considered the prototypes of later Moroccan and Andalusi mosques, although the Great Mosque of Taza (later modified...
Berber." Under the Almohads, the khaṭīb, or sermon-giver, of al-Qarawiyyīn Mosque in Fes, Mahdī b. ‘Īsā, was replaced by Abū l-Ḥasan b. ‘Aṭiyya khaṭīb because...
This is a list of mosques in Morocco. According to the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs in 2016, there are around 41,755 mosques in Morocco, of which...
Great Mosque also dates to that period. It houses a massive chandelier (pictured). TinmalMosque Marrakesh–Safi 1995 ii, v (cultural) The mosque, located...
the earlier Almohad mosques such as the Kutubiyya Mosque and the TinmalMosque. Although slightly smaller than the Mouassine Mosque, the architecture of...
other medieval mosques in this region. Overall, the original Almohad layout of the mosque was highly similar to the layout of the TinmalMosque built by the...
Outside of Fes, the Almohad Kutubiyya and Tinmalmosques are often considered the prototypes of later Moroccan mosques. Likewise, the monumental minarets (e...
: 232–234 They appear, for example, in the Great Mosque of Tlemcen (in present-day Algeria) and the Mosque of Tinmal (present-day Morocco).: 232 The motif of...
Zaragoza (11th century) Lambrequin arches in the qibla aisle of the Mosque of Tinmal (mid-12th century) A lambrequin or "muqarnas" arch with muqarnas decoration...
also conquered Marrakesh (1269) and defeated the last Almohad holdouts in Tinmal (1275). Building a new palace-city was a frequent preoccupation of North...
1130) under his successor, Abd al-Mu'min. They established their base at Tinmal, in the High Atlas mountains south of Marrakesh, and from here they progressively...
Following a military success in 1123, Ibn Tumart moved to the village of Tinmal where he died in 1130. In 1141, Igiliz served as a military base for the...
figures being buried here at that time (the Almohad rulers were buried at Tinmal instead).: 393 It is known, however, that in the 14th century, during the...
century) in the Alcazaba of Málaga, Spain Pointed horseshoe arches in the Mosque of Tinmal, Morocco (12th century), typical of the Almohad period and afterwards...
also conquered Marrakesh (1269) and defeated the last Almohad holdouts in Tinmal (1275). Building a new palace-city was a frequent preoccupation of North...
morals displacing unorthodox aspects of Berber custom. at his early base at Tinmal, Ibn Tumart functioned as "the custodian of the faith, the arbiter of moral...
morals displacing unorthodox aspects of Berber custom. At his early base at Tinmal, Ibn Tumart functioned as "the custodian of the faith, the arbiter of moral...
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