Square minaret
In the Tunisian style.
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A large modern mosque on Odeon Hill in Carthage, built between 2000 and 2003 and looking out over the Roman theatre and the Gulf of Tunis. It was first named the al-Abidine Mosque and was renamed after 2011 for Imam Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki school that most Tunisians follow. The building draws on Tunisia's historic mosques, with a tall square minaret, domes, arcades and a spacious courtyard, decorated in carved stone, plaster and marble. It stands out clearly from the archaeological sites around it and from the Roman Villas Park on the facing slope. Muslims pray here at prayer times. Non-Muslims usually admire it from outside, since it is a working mosque rather than a ticketed monument. For Muslim travellers touring Carthage, it is a convenient place to pray in the middle of the day, between the theatre and the nearby Roman villas.
In the Tunisian style.
Wide and arcaded.
Above the Gulf of Tunis.
Odeon Hill, Carthage, next to the Roman theatre
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