Mediates Kutubiya the city of Marrakech, near the Jemaa El Fna Square. And the designation of the mosque is derived from "Aketbian", which is the name of the market for the sale of books, thought it was the vicinity of mosques.
We have built the first Kutubiya by Caliph Abd al-Mu'min Ali bin Komi in 1147 on the ruins of a stone mansion Almurbati which revealed archaeological excavations on its buildings and architectural components.
The second mosque has been built in the year 1158 AD, which is similar in terms of the size of the building first, and is organized in a prayer hall rectangular includes seventeen arcade oriented perpendicularly towards the direction, carried by columns and arches consistent and crowns a unique reminiscent of those found Mosque villagers Fez. The confluence direction porch and hallway Bakbbh five pivotal determination and true to the characteristics of religious architecture Almohad which had a deep influence in various parts of the Muslim West.
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