Algeria - Tlemcen - Minaret of Sidi Boumediene Mosque
The Sidi Boumediene Mosque and Mausoleum at Tlemcen ('The Pearl of the Maghreb') in northwestern Algeria - capital of Tlemcen Province. The name Tlemcen comes from the Berber for Dry Spring'. Two very important and beautiful tombs can be found at Tlemcen. The first is that of Sidi Bou Medienne (pictured here), the second is that of Houari Bou Medienne (second President of Algeria). Famous for a large number of sufis who lived there. Under the protection of the Ottoman Empire in 1553
Picture No
10610110
Media ID
46560561
Size
3480px x 5727px
(14.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1910s
