- Stock Photography: HEADSTONES, GREAT MOSQUE OF SIDI OQBA, KAIROUAN, TUNISIA by Pepperboxdesign
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- Photo title: Headstones, Great Mosque of Sidi Oqba, Kairouan, Tunisia
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- Great Mosque of Sidi Oqba, Kairouan, Tunisia The city`s main attraction is the Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba, which is said to largely consist of its original building materials. In fact most of the column stems and capitals were taken from ruins of earlier-period buildings, while others were produced locally. There are 414 marble, granite and porphyry columns in the mosque. Almost all were taken from the ruins of Carthage. Previously, it was forbidden to count them, on pain of blinding. The Great Mosque of Kairouan Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba is considered as one of the most important monuments of Islamic civilization as well as a worldwide architectural masterpiece. Founded by Arab general Uqba Ibn Nafi in 670 CE, the present aspect of the mosque dates from the 9th century. The Great Mosque of Sidi-Uqba has a great historical importance as the ancestor of all the mosques in the western Islamic world.
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