NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY

The museum is located in the enclosure of the Sidi Bel Hassan mosque. It was built in 1297 by Abu Said Othman, the first son of Yaghmoracen, in honor of the Emir Abu Amar Ibrahim even if it bears the name of Abu El-Hassan Ben Yekhlef El-Tenessi, a scholar who lived under the reign of Abu Said Othman. Originally, this mosque was certainly a princely oratory but it was used as a barn at the beginning of the French conquest, before becoming a school and finally a museum in 1901.