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Below we show some of
the most important places in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia. This
is the holy city of Tunisia with a large number of mosques and
pilgrims who come to her. A good place to meet Islamic culture
through its buildings.
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Sightseeing
of Kairouan in Tunisia
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| Great Mosque | Zaouia of Sidi Sahab | |
| Dating from the year 670 and was built by Oqba bin Nafi. A few years later was destroyed and rebuilt back to trying to respect the original idea. The mosque is quite simple but draw attention to some details like your hourglass yard drainage that supplies some underground tanks or columns with Koranic inscriptions. | This is a complex memory-Belaoui Abu Zama, a companion of Muhammad. The interior is very beautiful with a mosque, a madrassa, a large patio and a funduq for pilgrims. Also found inside the remains of Sidi Sahab open only to Muslims. | |
| Cemetery of Ouled Farhane | Ancient minaret in Kairouan | |
| It is situated behind the wall of the city and shows an interesting picture with the white tombs and the walls and the minaret of the Great Mosque in the background. | This is the first of its kind in the world estimated construction around the year 730. It consists of 3 sections which together account for more than thirty feet above a base of 10 square meters. | |
| Walled | Mosque of the Three Doors | |
| It's believed that they were built in the eighth century but has been rebuilt numerous times. The city gates are beautiful and the wall at night if the lighting. | It's a ninth-century mosque that highlights the facade with three doors rather unusual for a mosque and some inscriptions on the top of the doors. The interior is forbidden to non Muslims. | |
| Pools Aghlabid | Markets | |
| An impressive building of the ninth century that obtains its water from the mountains located about 35 miles through an aqueduct. Its dimensions are impressive but his condition is not the most adequate for accumulated dirt. | Kairouan is a city that attracts many tourists in a growing sector every year. So these shops offering carpets, fabrics, jewelry and ceramics grow in the streets of the old to offer tourists a souvenir of his trip to Tunisia. | |
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