2024

SACRÉ-CŒUR CATHEDRAL (MUNICIPAL LIBRARY)

Oran
Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels
This was the city's second cathedral during the French period, rebuilt in ... Read more
2024

SAINTE-MARIE CATHEDRAL AND CLAVERIE STONE CENTRE

Oran
Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels
Sainte-Marie Cathedral houses the remains of Bishop Pierre Claverie, who ... Read more
2024

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY

Tlemcen
Mosque to visit
The museum is located in the grounds of the Sidi Bel Hassan mosque. Built ... Read more
2024

KOUBBA AND SIDI EL-HOUARI MOSQUE

Oran
Mosque to visit
The Koubba and adjoining mosque were built in 1799, at the request of Bey ... Read more
2024

MOSQUE OF SIDI SENOUCI

Tlemcen
Mosque to visit
The small mosque, whose prayer room is unusually located on the second ... Read more
2024

SIDI BOUMEDIENE MOSQUE

Parc National De Tlemcen
Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit
Choïab Ibn Hocine El-Andaloussi, known as Sidi Boumediene, was born in ... Read more
2024

TOMB OF RABBI EPHRAIM ENKAOUA

Tlemcen
Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit
Fleeing persecution of Jews in Spain, Ephraim's parents settled in Tlemcen ... Read more
2024

PASHA'S MOSQUE

Oran
Mosque to visit
Built from 1792 by the bey Mohamed Ben Othman, known as "the one-eyed" or ... Read more
2024

LARGE MOSQUE

Tlemcen
Mosque to visit
Begun in 1102 by Youssef Ibn Tachfine, the Almoravid founder of Tlemcen, ... Read more
2024

BEN OTHMAN MOSQUE

Oran
Mosque to visit
The mosque bears the name Mohamed Ben Othman, known as Mohamed El-Kebir, ... Read more
2024

MOSQUE OF SIDI EL-HALAOUI

Tlemcen
Mosque to visit
Originally from Seville, Abou Abdallah Echoudi gave up everything to retire ... Read more
2024

OLD SYNAGOGUE

Oran
Religious buildings
Inaugurated in 1918, it is the largest and most beautiful synagogue in ... Read more
2024

GREAT ABDELHAMID BEN BADIS MOSQUE

Oran
Mosque to visit
This Andalusian-Maghrebian-style mosque features a 64-metre-high dome and ... Read more