Koutoubia mosque the famous monument in Marrakech

you can't visit Marrakech without visiting the famous mosque of koutoubia about Koutoubia mosque  Collector «Koutoubia» is...

you can't visit Marrakech without visiting the famous mosque of koutoubia

about Koutoubia mosque 

Collector «Koutoubia» is located in downtown Marrakech, and this name is derived from the «librarians», a bookstore market thought it was the vicinity of mosques name. And built the first Koutoubia Mosque

 By Caliph Abd al-Mu'min Ben Ali Komi 1147 AD on the ruins of a stone mansion Almurbati revealed archaeological excavations on its buildings and architectural components, according to the website of the Free Encyclopedia.

The second mosque was built in the year 1158 AD, which is similar in size the first building, and is organized in a prayer hall rectangular includes seventeen arcade oriented vertically towards the Qibla, carried by columns and arches consistent and unique crowns reminiscent of those found Mosque villagers Fez.

«Ordered Abdelmoumen building the mosque the presence of Marrakech ... began to built and the establishment of accepted it in the first ten days of the month of Rabi-year 553 AH, corresponding to the month of May 1158 and worked in the middle of Sha'ban of the year mentioned in the best faces and strangest Sanai, and cleared the area, and the wisest of construction and carpentry , in which the Umbrella glass degrees pulpit and fence cabin What if the work in the many years of surprised completeness, how in this little-term, which imagines a from manufacturers that are the appreciation and planning as well as its construction, and prayed the Friday mid-Shaaban said »As stated in the book Alastqsa News Far Maghreb countries to author Ahmed bin Khalid Naciri.

He built Abdelmoumen House stone mosque last Friday to collect it, and began to build the mosque, and the demolition of the mosque, which was the bottom of the city which was built by Ali bin Leos The Koutoubia mosque of the most important mosques in Morocco, according to the owner Blazers Almosah said in the news Marrakchi.

The mosque occupies an area of ​​0.5300 square meters and the 17 suites and 11 dome decorated with reliefs, and the decisions announced sultans majestic and major events took place, according to the free encyclopedia site.

And ornate mosque minaret in the upper parts ceramic frieze, painted turquoise become a symbol of the city, while the platform Koutoubia is one provider to a system of movement is one of the masterpieces of Islamic art of carpentry. This platform has been made in Cordoba at the beginning of the twelfth century, at the request of Prince Almurbati Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Yasin for the mosque, which finished construction in Marrakech.

The confluence gallery kiss five Bakbbh hallway and axial design and true to the characteristics of the Almohad religious architecture, which had a deep impact in various parts of the Muslim West. The Koutoubia Mosque Islamic lighthouse located in the heart of the city of Marrakech beating the mosque history Thumper at the foot of the era of civilizations event and he remained a witness to history came to naming the Koutoubia Mosque that name borrowed or inspired by the type of activity in the vicinity of the mosque area they Ketabon and calligraphers and Ketbion as they were called in ancient times Koutoubia Mosque, was built during the reign of the Almohad dynasty in the era successor Abd al-Mu'min in the second half of the second century AD.

He knew about the founder of the Koutoubia Mosque also venerate the Holy Quran, as «made him in his films, some of Sondos and some of the gold, silver and studded the types of rubies and varieties stones strange kind and useless example, and taken to the membrane Badi Loader, which fits in surprisingly workmanship and taken to the very chair ilk then taken for all the ark preserved it on that vein », according to the book Alastqsa news Morocco Far countries.