List of mosques in Kairouan

Mosque of Oqba

Kairouan was founded in about the year 670 when the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi of Amir Muauia selected a site in the middle of a dense forest, then infested with wild beasts and reptiles, as the location of a military post for the conquest of the West. Today the city holds many significant mosques, as being one of the largest and richest cities of the maghreb for centuries, as well as the capital for many Arab Dynasties, such as the Fatimids, and the Hafsids.

Ummayaad

Great Mosque of Kairouan
Mosque al Hilali

The Great Mosque of Kairouan also known as the Mosque of Uqba (Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba)

Abbasid

Al-Zaytuna Mosque
Mosque of Sidi Sahab
Mosque Of Three Doors

Façade of the Mosque of the Three Gates with its minaret.

Hafsid

Mosque Sidi Bouraoui
Mosque Negra

Mosque of the Barber

Ottoman

Mosque of the Sabres
Sidi Abid El Ghariani

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Mosque el-Ghofran
Al-Huda Mosque
Asalam Mosque
Mosque Bémri
Mosque Maammar
Mosque Bilel
Atteban Mosque
Anas Bin Malek
Arrahman Mosque
Mosque AFH

Lists of mosques by city

North Africa	Alexandria Algiers Benghazi Cairo Kairouan Marrakech Rabat Sidon Tunis

Middle East	Abu Dhabi Aleppo Amman Ankara Baghdad Basra Beirut Damascus Damietta Esfahan Gaza Istanbul Jerusalem Mecca Medina Najaf Qom Riyadh Sana'a Shiraz Tabriz Tehran Trabzon Van

Central Asia	Samarqand Bukhara Kabul Mazar-i-Sharif

South Asian Subcontinent	Islamabad Karachi Dakka Bangalore Multan Hyderabad Lahore Delhi

China	Urumqi Kashgar Beijing Guangzhou Xinjiang Linxia Xi'an Canton

Sub-Saharan Africa	Timbuktu Bamako Zanzibar Dakar Djenné

America	Ottawa Mexico City São Paulo Buenos Aires Caracas

Europe	Istanbul Ulcinj

South East Asia and Ocenia	Jakarta Surabaya Bandung Medan Padang Singapore Kuala Lumpur

See also Mosques by country

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