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Great Mosque of Kairouan mihrab view
2026-07-04
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- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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About this work
Great Mosque of Kairouan Central view of the central part of the prayer hall in Mosque Okba in Kairouan: the view contain the Mihrab with islamic art inside and calligraphy items. The Minbar (where the imam make the Friday sermon) too is seen here and those tow items are surrounded with the most beautiful roman columns that are reused from roman temples to build the mosque in 670AD. The tile surroundin the mihrab are the oldest in North Africa they date back to the 9th century (c. 862 CE) during the Aghlabid period. Historical accounts state they were imported from Baghdad, Mesopotamia (Iraq) by the ruler Abu Ibrahim Ahmad.
