Sidi Mansour Mosque ( ar, جامع سيدي منصور) is a
Tunisian mosque in El Hajjamine quarter, attached to the
Bab El Jazira suburb in the south of
the Medina of Tunis
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Localization
The mosque can be found in Sidi Mansour Street, near Bab El Fellah, one of the gates of the medina.
Etymology
The mosque was named after the saint Sidi Mansour Abou Daliah ( ar, سيدي منصور أبودالية), attached to the
Idrisid dynasty that ruled
Morocco between 789 and 985.
He was born in
Fes
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and died in
Gafsa in the
15th century
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[Hayet El Mejri, De l'éducation traditionnelle à l'éducation primaire dans la médina de Tunis à l'époque ottomane, Tunis, Laboratoire d'études maghrébines, 2015, 284 p. (), p. 49-50]
History
According to Hayet El Mejri, the kouttab of the mosque existed in 1875.
[
Mosquée Sidi Mansour photo5 جامع سيدي منصور.jpg, Marble panel with the name of the mosque
Mosquée Sidi Mansour photo4 جامع سيدي منصور.jpg, Entrance of the mosque
Mosquée Sidi Mansour photo3 جامع سيدي منصور.jpg, Minaret of the mosque
Carte postale montrant la mosquée de Sidi Mansour جامع سيدي منصور.jpg, Sidi Mansour mosque in 1920
]
References
Mosques in Tunis
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