Thursday, October 9, 2014

Graves of The Saadines

Saadian tombs located Casbah district. Construction works began with the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century construction of the dome was buried by members of the royal family Saadia special machine Masuda, mother of Sultan Ahmed Mansour, and his father and his brother. This dome has formed the nucleus of the compound, which has been expanded and decorated by Alsultanin Abdullah Ahmad Mansour and mostly golden. 

The shrine consists of two wings: the first includes a set of spaces that have been built by Ahmed Mansour, where it was buried, which is composed of three halls: 

Mehrab Hall: It is a problem of a small mosque is based on three corridors of marble columns. This mosque is available on the niche beautifully decorated muqarnas. 
Hall Twelve columns: buried the body of Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur and the sultans of the three who led the referee after him. This dome decorated with a mixture of gypsum and wood Almenkoshin and tiles, marble, embodied these writings through the elements of plant engineering. 
Hall Niches three: It is covered with beautiful motifs of its predecessors, has used the same materials and techniques of ornamentation that characterizes the rest of the spaces.

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