Hammouda Pacha Mosque or Hamouda Pacha al Mouradi ( ar, مسجد حمودة باشا) is a

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, ...

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. It is an official historical monument.

Localization

This mosque is located in the

Medina Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...

area of the city, in the Sidi Ben Arous street.

History

Built in 1655 by Hammouda Pacha, it is the second mosque to be built by the

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named aft ...

rite in Tunis.

Architecture

The Hammouda Pacha mosque is known for its Turkish architecture. It has an

octagon In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon. A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...

minaret A minaret (; ar, منارة, translit=manāra, or ar, مِئْذَنة, translit=miʾḏana, links=no; tr, minare; fa, گل‌دسته, translit=goldaste) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques. Minarets are generall ...

and the hall of prayer is rectangular. File:Mosquée Hamouda Bacha, Tunis 21 septembre 2013 (panoramique).jpg, A panomaric view of the mosque File:Mosquee hamouda pacha 2.jpg, Entrance of the mosque from Sidi Ben Arous street

References

Mosques in the medina of Tunis Religious buildings and structures completed in 1655 1655 establishments in the Ottoman Empire 1655 establishments in Africa Ottoman architecture in Tunisia 17th-century mosques {{Tunisia-mosque-stub