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were to be formed from drums of differing height, an idea that, while innovative at the time, slowed construction significantly and contributed to the mosque's unfinished state. Scholar Christian Ewert has speculated that since the new capital and its mosque were intended as a staging area for troops going to Al-Andalus, some of the motivation for this unusual design feature may have been a desire to evoke the columns of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, the most celebrated mosque in Al-Andalus.
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After Yaqub al-Mansur's death in 1199 the mosque and the new capital remained unfinished and his successors lacked the resources or the will to finish it. The structure was left with only the beginnings of its walls and 348 columns. While there is evidence that some tiled roofing had been added to
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wall (the southern/southeastern wall in the direction of prayer). The most central aisle and the two aisles along the far sides were wider than the others. Notably, the mosque was given cylindrical stone columns rather than the brick piers more commonly seen in Almohad architecture. These columns
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which has progressively turned a red ochre colour over the centuries. It has a square floor plan like other minarets in the region, measuring 16 meters per side. The current structure is 44 m (144 ft) tall but its intended height – based on knowledge of the regular proportions of other
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river to provide an imposing spectacle visible for miles around. Since the area surrounding was suburban at the time of construction and lacked the population to regularly fill the mosque, historians have been led to believe that it was meant to serve the Almohad troops who gathered here before
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to ride a horse to the top to issue the call to prayer. At the center of each of the six floors would have been a vaulted chamber surrounded by the ramps and lit by the horseshoe-shaped windows set into the sides of the tower. Its exterior is decorated with panels of
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the mosque before it was abandoned, almost all materials that could be carried away were eventually stripped from the site for reuse in construction elsewhere. In addition to being incomplete, the mosque sustained some damage in the
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The mosque's total dimensions were enormous for the time: 183 by 139 meters (600 by 456 ft). If completed, it would have been the largest mosque in the western part of the Islamic world, larger even than the
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for its height and method of ascendancy, a series of ramps. Yaqub al-Mansur conducted other works in Rabat, most notably the construction of new city walls and gates and additions to the
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and Moroccan archeologists excavated the site and carefully reconstructed what was left. In the 1960s the site of mosque's ruins was transformed to accommodate the construction of the
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at its southeastern corner, alongside a modern mosque and another pavilion which occupy the rest of the southern side of the complex. The modern mausoleum and mosque were designed by
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Almohad minarets – was at least 64 m (210 ft), possibly 80 m (260 ft) to the top of its second tier (the smaller lantern tower usually topping minarets) and
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Tentative List on July 1, 1995, in the Cultural category. It was granted World Heritage Status in 2012 as part of the larger site encompassing historic Rabat.
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carved from the same sandstone as the tower itself, although today it also retains one marble capital of Andalusi
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wall, and the other two on either side of the prayer hall, allowing daylight and fresh air to flow in through the
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setting off on campaigns and possibly even to serve double-duty as both a place of worship and as a fortress.
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architect Cong Vo Toan and completed in 1971. The tower and the site of the mosque was added to the
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The plan originally included three small inner courtyards, one in the back, parallel to the
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format and was divided by rows of columns into 21 aisles running perpendicular to the
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The mosque : history, architectural development & regional diversity
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The patron who constructed the Hassan Tower is Yaqub al-Mansur, ruler of the
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Present-day remains of the walls and columns of the unfinished mosque
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Floor plan of al-Mansur's mosque (with the minaret tower at the top)
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The mosque is strategically placed on the high south bank of the
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The walls of the mosque were made of lime concrete on top of a
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was intended to commemorate al-Mansur's victory at the
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Although the tower and the mosque were commissioned by
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34°01′26.98″N 6°49′22.17″W / 34.0241611°N 6.8228250°W / 34.0241611; -6.8228250
CE
Moorish
Almohad
Arabic
minaret
mosque
Rabat
Morocco
Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur
Almohad Caliphate
Muslim world
Mausoleum of Mohammed V
Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur

Almohad Caliphate
Berber
Muslim
Maghreb
Iberia
medina
Kasbah
minaret
Mármol
Battle of Alarcos
Giralda
Seville
Al Andalus
Spain

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