Zellij courtyard
A marble fountain.
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A Marinid madrasa in the heart of old Meknes near the Grand Mosque, founded by the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan in 1335 and 1336 according to its inscriptions and later restored by his son Abu Inan, whose name it took. It is not the famous Bou Inania Madrasa of Fes, which Abu Inan built himself. It is one of the finest and best-preserved richly decorated Marinid madrasas, thanks to later restorations. The building wraps around a zellij-paved courtyard with a marble fountain, its walls banded with coloured zellij below, fine carved stucco in the middle and carved cedar above, with Arabic inscriptions. Upstairs are the small student rooms with latticed wooden windows over the courtyard, and from the roof there is a superb view over the rooftops of the old town, the minaret of the Grand Mosque and its green-tiled roofs. Admission is about sixty dirhams according to 2026 guides, usually open from nine to six. It lies in the old medina's souks, a short walk from Place el-Hedim.
A marble fountain.
Student rooms.
Over the Grand Mosque.
Old medina, near the Grand Mosque, Meknes
Dar Jamaï Museum (National Museum of Music)A late nineteenth-century palace on Place el-Hedim, built in 1882 for the Jamaï 2 minutes walk
Place el-HedimThe great square of old Meknes, separating the medina from Moulay Ismail's kasba3 minutes walk
Bab MansourThe most famous and beautiful gate of Meknes and one of the finest historic gate4 minutes walk
Qara PrisonA series of underground vaulted chambers built in the early eighteenth century b6 minutes walk
Mausoleum of Moulay IsmailA funerary complex holding the tomb of Sultan Moulay Ismail, who ruled Morocco f7 minutes walkNo, they share a name: the Meknes madrasa was founded by Abu al-Hasan and restored by his son Abu Inan, while the Fes one was built by Abu Inan himself.