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Koutoubia Mosque


Koutoubia Mosque
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Copyright: Manuel Mayorga (ManuMay) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 480 W: 98 N: 394] (2820)
Genre: Lieux
Média: Couleur
Date de prise de vue: 1991-06
Catégories: Vie quotidienne, Architecture, Oeuvres d'art
Appareil photographique: Yashica
Versions: version originale
Date de soumission: 2008-10-02 8:25
Vue: 493
Points: 8
[Ligne directrice - Note] Note du photographe [Spanish]
The Koutoubia Mosque (Arabic: جامع الكتبية‎) is the largest mosque in Marrakech, Morocco. The minaret was completed under the reign of the Almohad Caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (1184-1199) and was used as model for the Giralda of Seville then for the Hassan Tower of Rabat.

The name is derived from the Arabic al-Koutoubiyyin for librarian, since it used to be surrounded by sellers of manuscripts. It is considered the ultimate structure of its kind. The tower is 69 m (221 ft) in height and has a lateral length of 12.8 m (41 ft). Six rooms (one above the other) constitute the interior; leading around them is a ramp by way of which the muezzin could ride up to the balcony. It is built in a traditional Almohad style and the tower is adorned with four copper globes.

According to legend, they were originally made of pure gold, and there were once supposed to have been only three. The fourth was donated by the wife of Yacoub el-Mansour as compensation for her failure to keep the fast for one day during the month of Ramadan. She had her golden jewelry melted down to fashion the fourth globe.

The minaret of the Koutoubia was the model for the minaret of the Giralda mosque in Seville which in its turn has influenced thousands of church towers in Spain and Eastern Europe (e.g. the churches on the red square in Moscow), and later for many buildings throughout the United States of America (including the Manhattan Municipal Building and Russia (especially during the Stalinist era).
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  • Nicou Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2286 W: 0 N: 5651] (28204)
  • [2008-10-02 9:09]

hello,

c'est pas la toure de Pise, mais ça pourrait lêtre, superbe cette image NB, comme le clocher penche en arrière, très belle vielle image, mangigique.

bravo et amitié
Nicou

Ola Manuel,
Nice framed photo and text!
Thats all i can judge.Must be very old photo or made looks like?
theofanis

Hi Manuel, very pretty photograph, even if I regret the top of the mosque a little edge tallies, when with the treatment it is superb cheer. JO

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  • Morac Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1214 W: 171 N: 1456] (11084)
  • [2008-10-02 14:19]

Bonsoir Manuel,

Tu ne peux pas savoir ce que tu évoques en moi avec cette photo.

Si tu savais ce qui me lie avec cette ville, avec cet endroit, avec ce minaret depuis bien plus longtemps que 1991 ...

Et ce soir encore, à l'occasion de la fin du ramadan je téléphonais à des amis pour leur dire qu'il me tardait de revenir à Marrakech.
J'espère fin novembre être de nouveau au pied de ce minaret.
Bonne soirée Manuel.
Marc

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