GRANDE MOSQUÉE D'ALGER
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This mosque, the largest in Africa, is a monumental structure with a prayer hall and exhibition space.
A must-see! Work was completed in 2019 and the mosque was inaugurated in October 2020. This monumental structure is the largest mosque in Africa and the third largest in the world after Mecca and Medina (both in Saudi Arabia). Spanning some 30 hectares, the site features a prayer hall, an exhibition space, a museum of Islamic art and history, a media library, an amphitheatre and a research center. In all, it can accommodate 120,000 people, while the prayer hall can hold up to 35,000 worshippers.
Its minaret is the world's tallest, reaching 265 m in height. Accessible to the public via panoramic elevators, the view from the top is breathtaking over Algiers and its bay.
In 2021, it won the Chicago Athenaeum Museum's annual Architecture and Design Award and the European Center for Architecture Award.
However, its exorbitant cost - reportedly close to $2 billion - has sparked controversy. " The construction of the Great Mosque of Algiers is not a national necessity like the other necessary infrastructures and investments, for which Algeria is lagging far behind and which are the only guarantees of a stable and perennial self-sufficient economy ", wrote the authors of a petition calling for the work to be halted as soon as construction began.
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