Mosque & Consulate Palace - Algiers
The Djemaa el-Djedid Mosque and the Consulate Palace, Algiers, Algeria. Colonial French town planners cleared many Ottoman buildings when they redesigned the Algiers waterfront and laid out what is now the Place des Martyrs, but they left the Djemaa el-Djedid. Contrary to its name, the New Mosque, sometimes also called the Pecherie Mosque, was built in 1660 on the site of an earlier Koranic school and paid for by public subscription
Picture No
10283140
Media ID
46537984
Size
4703px x 2999px
(2.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1920s
