The Atiq Mosque ( ar, المسجد العتيق) in
Benghazi
Benghazi () , ; it, Bengasi; tr, Bingazi; ber, Bernîk, script=Latn; also: ''Bengasi'', ''Benghasi'', ''Banghāzī'', ''Binghāzī'', ''Bengazi''; grc, Βερενίκη (''Berenice'') and ''Hesperides''., group=note (''lit. Son of he Ghazi ...
, Libya, is one of the oldest and best known in the city.
The
mosque, also known as Al-Jami al-Kabir (the Great Mosque), forms the north side of Freedom Square. The original structure dates to the early fifteenth century, and since then received many renovations. The present central-domed structure is
Ottoman in design.
Gallery
File:Benghazi Municipality Square.jpg, The mosque in Benghazi municipal square in the 1930s
File:Benghazi Atiq Mosque Interior.JPG, Interior of the mosque
See also
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Islam in Libya
Most Libyans adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam, which provides both a spiritual guide for individuals and a keystone for government policy. Its tenets stress a unity of religion and state rather than a separation or distinction between the ...
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List of mosques in Libya
References
Further reading
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*{{cite book, last=Ham, first=Anthony, title=Libya. Ediz. Inglese, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPaNiy3YisIC&pg=PA127, access-date=2013-04-13
, year=2007, publisher=Lonely Planet, isbn=978-1-74059-493-6, page=127
Buildings and structures in Benghazi
Mosques in Libya