Grand Mosque of Oujda

The Grand Mosque of Oujda (Arabic: الجامع الكبير) is the historic main Friday mosque of Oujda, Morocco. The mosque was founded by the Marinid sultan Abu Ya'qub Yusuf in 1296.^[1][2][3][4]

Grand Mosque of Oujda
الجامع الكبير
Religion
Sect	(Maliki) Sunni
Location
Location	Oujda, Morocco
Shown within Morocco
Geographic coordinates	34°40′45″N 1°54′47″W
Architecture
Type	mosque
Style	Marinid, Moroccan, Islamic
Founder	Sultan Abu Ya'qub Yusuf
Date established	1296 CE
Minaret(s)	1

Architecture

The mosque is large and slightly irregular in its floor plan due to multiple expansions and modifications over the centuries. The mosque's mihrab (niche symbolizing direction of prayer) and the ornamental arches near it are believed to date from its original construction, while the current courtyard (sahn) and much of the north-east section of the mosque is of a later construction.^[1] Most of the mosque is of a simple construction in the same hypostyle form of other Moroccan mosques. A well-proportioned minaret, 24 meters high and with decorated facades, stands on the mosque's western side.^[1][2] The minaret was likely built or completed in 1317, a couple of decades after the mosque's foundation.^[2]

See also

• List of mosques in Morocco

References

1. Marçais, Georges (1954). L'architecture musulmane d'Occident. Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques.
2. "La mosquée Al Aadam d'Oujda (les mérinides)". habous.gov.ma (in French). Archived from the original on 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
3. Lintz, Yannick; Déléry, Claire; Tuil Leonetti, Bulle, eds. (2014). Maroc médiéval: Un empire de l'Afrique à l'Espagne. Paris: Louvre éditions. p. 429. ISBN 9782350314907.
4. Marçais, Georges; Troin, J.F. (2012). "Wad̲j̲da". In Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill.