Nedroma ( ar, ندرومة) is a city in

Tlemcen Province Tlemcen ( ar, ولاية تلمسان) is a province ('' wilaya'') in northwestern Algeria. The Tlemcen National Park is located there. History The province was created from Oran (department) and Tlemcen department in 1974. Administrative div ...

, in northwestern

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, about from

Tlemcen Tlemcen (; ar, تلمسان, translit=Tilimsān) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran, and capital of the Tlemcen Province. The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the p ...

. Once the capital of Trara, it was built on the ruins of a

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town by

Abd al-Mu'min Abd al Mu'min (c. 1094–1163) ( ar, عبد المؤمن بن علي or عبد المومن الــكـومي; full name: ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlwī ibn Yaʿlā al-Kūmī Abū Muḥammad) was a prominent member of the Almohad mov ...

the

Almohad The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the unity of God) was a North African Berber Muslim empire fou ...

caliph. It has a great Islamic history, with its

Great Mosque of Nedroma Great Mosque ( ar, الجامع الكبير) or the Great Mosque of Nedroma ( ar, الجامع الكبير بندرومة) is a historic mosque in the city of Nedroma, about 77km from Tlemcen, Algeria. The mosque was founded in 1145 and contain ...

once containing the earliest surviving

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minbar. Nedroma became a

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in 2002 for its cultural importance.

History

Once the capital of Trara, it was built on the ruins of a

town by

the

caliph, who himself was a native of the neighboring mountains. the town has a great history of Islam. The earliest surviving Almoravid minbar, dated to around A.H. 479, once belonged to the Great Mosque of Nedroma. It is now on display in the Musée Nationale des Antiquités Classiques et Musulmanes in Algiers. In the 1930s

Ulama In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...

organizations, particularly the Boy Scouts sprang up in Nedroma and other ancient cities of the interior such as

and Constantine. Riots broke out in the town on 15 October 1953, killing one person and injuring several. 26 were convicted. Nedroma was added to the

Tentative List on December 30, 2002 in the Cultural category.

Geography

Nedroma is situated to the north of the Trara Hills, from

, and about west of

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques d ...

. The N99 highway passes south-north through the town, connecting it to

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in the south and Ghazaouet on the coast. The W100 road leads to

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in the southwest, and the W38 road leads to

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and Bentalha in the northeast.

Landmarks

Nedroma contains the Great Mosque of Nedroma (Sidi Yahia Mosque) and the Nedroma Hospital in the northern outskirts along the N99. Baked brick is a common building material in the town.

References

{{Authority control Communes of Tlemcen Province