Travel Guide El-Atteuf

His name evokes the meander of the oued in which the first town of the M'Zab valley was built. A 9 km from Least, it looks far from everything. You can climb the alleys with the clavel walls of rose, orange ochre or pastel green to the gateway to the cemetery dominated by some tombs to iduden, but you can also bypass it from the bottom, along high walls to the famous but famous mosque of Sheikh Sidi Brahim. Half buried, his modest plan, moulées on a descent or his niches to receive the effects of the students of the mederasa would be the basis of Le Corbusier's wonder that he built the chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp near Vesoul. And it is true that the French chapel dedicated to the cult of Mary has a few family airs with the mosque Sidi Brahim! The little mosque, over 700 years old, was built in honour of Sidi Brahim, a Sheikh who had long died and considered himself to be a little forgotten, thinking of Ba Messaoud, a Mozabite imprisoned for many years from his country. Old Sidi Brahim offered Him freedom against the promise to raise a mosque on his behalf at the place where his cane was launched.