Laz Mosque ( ar, جامع لاز) is a small
mosque
A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...
in the west of the
medina of Tunis.
Localization
It is located in Dar El Jeld Street.
Etymology
The mosque got its name from the
dey of Tunis
Dey (Arabic: داي), from the Turkish honorific title ''dayı'', literally meaning uncle, was the title given to the rulers of the Regency of Algiers (Algeria), Tripoli,Bertarelli (1929), p. 203. and Tunis under the Ottoman Empire from 1671 on ...
Hadj Mohamed Laz, a
janissary from
Lazistan.
[Ahmed Saadaoui, Tunis, architecture et art funéraires : sépultures des deys et des beys de Tunis de la période ottomane, Tunis, Centre de publication universitaire, 2010, 496 p. (), p. 68-75]
Description
According to the commemorative plaque, Hadj Mustapha Laz Dey was buried in the mosque.
References
Mosques in the medina of Tunis
11th-century mosques
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