SIDI DARGHOUT MOSQUE

The cheir of the mosque will come to you, otherwise ask the nearby hammam to help you find it. He usually asks for a few dinars for the visit for the maintenance of the mosque. It was built in the second half of the th century by Darghout pasha, the famous privateer and brilliant Turkish admiral became the second Ottoman governor of Libya. He also had the city of a palace, disappeared today. His tomb lies behind the mosque, near the wall at the level of the mihrab. The T form of the prayer room may be explained by the fact that it was built at the location of an ancient chapel in the Knights of Malta. Its roof has 32 domes. It had 27 of its original origin, which suggests how much its architects wanted sumptuous since at that time the Tripoli mosques had only 4 to 9 domes. His Ottoman style minaret was built 50 years later by Iskander pasha. In the prayer room, the mihrab, minbar and concrete columns date back to a renovation after the building was bombed during the Second World War. The room is decorated with floral motifs and épigraphiques écriture friezes (type of calligraphie calligraphie, rare in Libya). At the entrance to the mosque, a second mihrab in the wall of the small courtyard serving prayer in summer, decorated with very colourful ceramic tiles.