The oldest Islamic mosque

Kairaouine Mosque (Djemaa el Kairaouine) in the city of Fes is the second largest mosque in Morocco (after Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca new). Section mosque tower built in the year 956 and is the oldest Islamic building in Fes.

As quoted from Sacred-destinations, this mosque is also the holiest mosque in Morocco that regulate the timing of all the festivals of Islam that is in place. Kairaouine Mosque established in 857 by Fatima al-Fihri, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from the holy city of Kairouan in Tunisia. Fatima and her sister, Mariam, inherited a lot of money from their father, and Fatima vowed to spend all of it at a mosque suitable for the Tunisian community in Fes.

Its present form is largely reconstructed 10th-century under Caliph of Cordoba, Abd Er Rahman III, and reconstruction of the 12th century under royal Almoravids.
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