Sidi Belhassen Chedly Mausoleum is a mausoleum in
Tunisia, located near the
Jellaz cemetery
Jellaz Cemetery ( ''Maqbara al-Jalāz''; also known as al-Jallaz and Cemetery Djalez) is a large hillside Muslim cemetery in Tunis, Tunisia, established in the thirteenth century. Located next to the bus station, the cemetery is the largest in the ...
south of
Tunis.
Description
The mausoleum is built on the place of spiritual retreats and teaching of one of the most revered
Sufi
Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...
saints in the Maghreb,
Abu Hassan al-Shadhili. It has been rebuilt more than a dozen times since his death in
Egypt in 1258.
The mausoleum consists of two sites, the first of which, the Kabira Mamiyya tourbet, located on the highest point of the hill, is built on the place of retirement and residence of the saint and houses the symbolic tomb of
Abu Hassan al-Shadhili. In its current form, it was built by
Abu l-Hasan Ali I in the 1740s, a large annex room shelters the tombs of his wife, the pious Kabira Mamiyya who gave his name to the building, and of several other women of the princely house of the
Husainid dynasty
Gallery
File:Mausolée_Sidi_Belhassen_Chedly_6.JPG, Inside the mausoleum
File:Mausolée Sidi Belhassen Chedly 8.JPG, Door of Sidi Belhassen Chedly Mausoleum
File:Sidi Bilhassen Chedly 1900.jpg, Sidi Belhassen Chedly Mausoleum in 1900
File:Image-Vue sur le bouhira de Tunis colline sidi belhassen.png, View from the summit of Djellaz in 1846, with the Kabira Mamiyya tourbet and Lake Tunis in the background
References
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Mausoleums in Tunisia
Sufism in Africa
Sufi Islamic holy places