Andalusian and Ottoman Mosques of Algiers
Algiers · Algeria
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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.
The walk
The Great Mosque
A thousand-year-old Almoravid mosque, altered by bombardment, dynasties, and colonial rebuilding.
The New Mosque
A seventeenth-century mosque whose unusual cross-shaped plan created a legend about its builder.
Ketchaoua Mosque
A mosque shaped by Ottoman rebuilding, French conquest, cathedral use, and return to Islam.
Ben Farès Mosque
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.
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
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