Statue of Duc D'Orleans & Mosque - Algiers
A remarkable juxtaposition: A Statue of the Duc D'Orleans and the Mosque of Djemaa el-Djedid, 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
10283144
Media ID
46538032
Size
4704px x 3054px
(2.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1930s
