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Al-Shorafaa Mosque

Marrakech, Morocco · built 1572

The Mouassine Mosque or al-Muwassin Mosque (jama' al-muwāssīn) is a major mosque in the Mouassine neighbourhood of Marrakesh, Morocco. It was built in the 16th century by order of the Saadian sultan Abdallah al-Ghalib. It was designed to serve as the Friday mosque of a newly redeveloped neighbourhood and formed the central element of a larger religious-charitable complex that also included a madrasa, a hammam, a library, and the Mouassine Fountain. The design of the mosque itself is typical of Moroccan architecture from this period except for its minaret, which is unusually short and simple.

Mosque data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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