List of mosques in Kairouan

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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

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

Abbasid

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

Hafsid

Mosque of the Barber

Ottoman

unknown

See also

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