List of mosques in Algeria

This is a list of mosques in Algeria. According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowment in 2006, there are around 15,000 mosques in Algeria as a whole, of which 450 are in the capital city of Algiers. 90% of which are built after the independence of Algeria in 1962.[1]

Name	Images	Location	Year	Remarks
Sidi El Haloui		Tlemcen, Algeria	1353	Built by the Marinid Sultan Abou Inane Fares in honor of Abou Abdallah Echoudsy , a qadi of Seville accused of witchcraft and conspiring against the Zayyanid monarch under the Marinid occupation of the city.
Djama Bab Zir		Tlemcen, Algeria	Around 1070	Built by Youssef Ibn Tachfine under the Almoravid occupation of the city.
1st November of 1954 Great Mosque		Batna	2003
20th August of 1956 Mosque		Ouzellaguen	2011
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque		Oran	2015
Abdellah Ben Salem Mosque		Oran	1918
Abu Farès Mosque		Algiers	1865
Al-Aman Mosque		Souk Ahras	2011
Ali Bitchin Mosque		Algiers	1622
Al-Qods Mosque		Bouira	1652
Al-Rahma Mosque, Algiers		Algiers	1897
El Barani Mosque		Algiers	1653
Bey Mohamed el-Kebir Mosque		Oran	1792
Djama’a al-Djedid		Algiers	1660
Great Mosque of Algiers		Algiers	1097[2]
Emir Abdelkader Mosque		Constantine	1994
Ghardaia Mosque		Ghardaia	10th century
Hassan Pasha Mosque		Oran	1796
Imam Sidi el-Houari Mosque		Oran	1792-1799
Jemma Al Djazair		Algiers	2019
El Kawthar Mosque		Blida	1533	Renovated and expanded in 1981
Ketchaoua Mosque		Algiers	1612
Mansourah Mosque		Tlemcen	1302-1303
Mechouar Mosque		Tlemcen	1310
Great Mosque of Nedroma		Nedroma	1145
El Rahman Mosque		Cherchell	1574
Safir Mosque		Algiers	1534
Salah Bey Mosque		Annaba	1791-1792
Shrine of Sidi Abder Rahman		Algiers	1471	Commemorates Sidi Abder Rahman El Thaelebi, a renowned Islamic scholar
Sidi Boumediene Mosque		Tlemcen	1339	Preserves the tomb of Abu Madyan, an influential Sufi
Sidi Ghanim Mosque		Mila	678[3]	Probably the oldest Mosque in Algeria
Sidi Belhassen Mosque		Tlemcen	1290
Sidi Bou Merouane Mosque		Annaba	1033
Mausoleum of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine		Algiers	1791	Preserves the tomb of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine, the founder of Rahmaniyya Sufi order and one of the seven Patron Saints of Algiers.
Sidi Okba Mosque		Sidi Okba	686[4]
Sidi Ramadan Mosque		Algiers	1097
Great Mosque of Tlemcen		Tlemcen	1136[5][6]
Al-Umma Mosque		Algiers	1951

See also

• Islam in Algeria
• Zawiyas in Algeria

References

1. 15 ألف مسجد في الجزائر. Albayan. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
2. "Fountain in Mosque of El Kebir, Algiers, Algeria". World Digital Library. 1899. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
3. "Mois du patrimoine : La mosquée de Sidi Ghanem de Mila, une histoire à écrire". www.elmoudjahid.com. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
4. "Sidi 'Uqba (mosque, minaret and tomb)". Museum With No Frontiers. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
5. "Qantara - Great Mosque of Tlemcen". www.qantara-med.org. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
6. Marçais, Georges (1954). L'architecture musulmane d'Occident. Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques.