Tin Mal Mosque

Tin Mal Mosque

The Tin Mal Mosque is a mosque located in the High Atlas mountains of North Africa. It was built in
1156 to commemorate the founder of the Almohad dynasty, Mohamed Ibn Tumart. It is one of the two mosques in Morocco open to non-Muslims, the other being the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. The prototype for the Tin Mal mosque was the Great Mosque of Taza (near Fès), also built by Abd al-Mu'min. The Koutoubia in Marrakech was in its turn modelled on it.

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ee also

*Tinmel
*Koutoubia
*Great Mosque of Taza

References

Sanctuaires et fortresses almohades / H. Basset and Henri Terrasse, Collection "Hespéris" ; no 5, Paris, 1932

External links

*MWNF [http://www.discoverislamicart.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;ma;Mon01;9;en]
*Photo by Georges a. Bertrand [http://georgesabertrand.free.fr/galerie/oeuvre.php?id_
]
*Front of the mosque (photo by Alamy) [http://www.alamy.com/stock_photography/55BD2412-DD34-416E-BAC4-9FC94F29D90B/1/Photo+Provider+Network/A6A3RT.html]


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