Andalusian and Ottoman Mosques of Algiers
Algiers · Algeria
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Follow a focused route through five mosques in Algiers, using each stop to consider the presence of Andalusian and Ottoman traditions in the city. You will see الجامع الكبير, الجامع الجديد, جامع كتشاوة, مسجد ابن فارس, and مسجد سيدي رمضان in walking order. The sequence gives you a way to compare these mosques as a group rather than treating any one of them in isolation.
El recorrido
The Great Mosque
A thousand-year-old Almoravid mosque, altered by bombardment, dynasties, and colonial rebuilding.
La Nueva Mezquita
A seventeenth-century mosque whose unusual cross-shaped plan created a legend about its builder.
Mezquita de Kechaoua
A mosque shaped by Ottoman rebuilding, French conquest, cathedral use, and return to Islam.
Mezquita Ibn Faris
A synagogue built in 1865 became a mosque in 1962, leaving Algiers’ layered history in plain sight.
Sidi Ramadan Mosque
A mosque whose uncertain medieval origin is tied to both a conqueror and a local saint.
Datos: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
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Cómo funciona un recorrido
El guía empieza a hablar cuando llegas.
Esta página es el mapa y el itinerario. La aplicación es el guía que lo recorre contigo.
Elige un recorrido
Cada parada es un lugar real, ya en orden de marcha.
Guarda el teléfono
Sigue la línea en el mapa en directo, o descarga el recorrido antes de quedarte sin cobertura.
Escucha al llegar
En un recorrido narrado, la historia empieza sola en cada parada, y tus ojos siguen en el lugar.
Instalación gratuita · El recorrido destacado de cada ciudad es gratis, de principio a fin.
A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.