LARGE MOSQUE
A large, pretty mosque with a small, round, squat minaret dominating the market square on the former Place Rimbaud.
The Grande Mosquée, also known as the Al-Hamoudi Mosque, is like the city itself: horizontally large. Its small, round, squat minaret, outlined in pale green, dominates the market square, formerly Place Rimbaud. The building was financed in 1906 by a Yemeni merchant who wanted to endow the town with a vast mosque. It will be dethroned in 2019 by the gigantic Ottoman-style "Sultan Abdel-Hamid II" mosque, but the Al-Hamoudi mosque remains a very pretty mosque, well worth a visit for its historical value and the life that goes on around it.
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