The most beautiful religious buildings Tripoli

His name means mosque "from man to the elderly eye", from the nickname of Mohammed Pasha who had had the white eyebrows very early. He was built in 1687. His tomb lies behind the mosque wall at the level of the mihrab. The beautiful entrance door to the courtyard is carved out of patterns of escutcheons. The roof of this typically Libyan mosque has 16 domes. The decoration of its walls is a good example of the type of motifs used in the old city of Tripoli: stars, croissants, escutcheons and stylized cypress trees. The prayer room is open to hours of worship (to enter, waiting for the end of prayer).

The Kharrouba mosque, which was said to be five centuries old, was named for a large caroubier who grew in his yard. In line with the Libyan mosques, she has a roof with nine domes. It mixes the Inspirations and Ottoman inspirations (the minaret), like all the mosques of the old town built or renovated in Ottoman times.

Dating from 1833-1834, it is probably, with the mosque Ahmed Pasha Qaramanli, the most beautiful of Tripoli, as wanted by her founder. Youssef Gourgi was a rich Tripolitain from a family of Georgia who joined the family of Qaramanli. He is buried, as well as members of his family, behind the wall of mihrab. The mosque has an entrance decorated with geometric drawings and plant motifs in front of the arch mark Aurèle, and another (arch portal of marble and ceramics) in the rue Zenget ed-Diega. Sometimes you have to hit hard at the door to get you open. The prayer room also has two entrances, in the form of an arc with marble frames decorated with floral motifs. The facades are adorned with polychrome tiled tiles over which friezes are lined with geometric and épigraphiques motifs.

The 18 m ² prayer room is smaller than that of the Ahmed Pasha Qaramanli mosque, but it is even more decorated. In green, red and yellow tones, it is entirely covered with ceramic tiles and stucco tiles, with many floral motifs. His minaret is also more worked than that of the mosque Ahmed Pasha Qaramanli.