Sidi Mansour Mosque

Sidi Mansour Mosque (Arabic: جامع سيدي منصور‎) is a Tunisian mosque in El Hajjamine quarter, attached to the Bab El Jazira suburb in the south of the Medina of Tunis.

Sidi Mansour mosque

Localization

The mosque can be found in Sidi Mansour Street, near Bab El Fellah, one of the gates of the medina.

Etymology

The mosque was named after the saint Sidi Mansour Abou Daliah (Arabic: سيدي منصور أبودالية‎), attached to the Idrisid dynasty that ruled Morocco between 789 and 985.[1] He was born in Fes and died in Gafsa in the 15th century.[2]

History

According to Hayet El Mejri, the kouttab of the mosque existed in 1875.[2]

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  Marble panel with the name of the mosque
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  Entrance of the mosque
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  Minaret of the mosque
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  Sidi Mansour mosque in 1920

References

1. "Alchourouk.com".
2. Hayet El Mejri, De l'éducation traditionnelle à l'éducation primaire dans la médina de Tunis à l'époque ottomane, Tunis, Laboratoire d'études maghrébines, 2015, 284 p. (ISBN 9-93807-084-1), p. 49-50