The most beautiful religious buildings Taizz

This is the only mosque that can be visited. It was built in two stages. From 1295 to 1297, Ashraf I built the prayer room, which is covered by a large dome surrounded by eight smaller domes, with two minarets. The interior domes are finely decorated and painted. The walls are decorated with ciselé stucco. The yard, in the back, is embellished with abeilles patterns. Ashraf II (1376-1400) added the external gallery, closed by a very beautiful portal that still exists. The courtyard contains the graves of these two kings. It was Imam Ahmed who, in an impulse of austerity, made stucco and ceiling brush. The restoration of interior decorations has just finished. The visitor can photograph them from the door of the prayer room. Climbing over the mosque is no longer allowed. The graves of the wife and the children of the founder of the old mosque are in the courtyard of aux whose geometric construction is very interesting. The plush, beautifully painted domes prayer room. Today madrasas still exists. It has many architectural similarities with the mosques of the city of City, in the Tihama.

This is the Great Mosque on Friday. Dating back to the th century, it is the oldest of Ta. It is surmounted by three large domes and six smaller ones. The original minaret destroyed was replaced by another red brick.

The mosque of Youfrous was built in the 30 th century by the last king king, in memory of the descendant of Ali Abu Taleb, Sheikh Ahmed ibn Alwouan Al Sufi (died in 665). Sheikh Ahmed was the son of a harsh and cruel vizier with the people. He refused to succeed him because he did not want to dominate the population, and he became a hermit in Youfrous, where he helped and cared for everyone. His tomb is in the prayer room. A pilgrimage takes place every year. The large pool of? serves children during the summer. It is fed by a remote source by means of an underground channel and then by an aqueduct under a covered gallery. Further afield, in the direction of the south (80 km of Ta), you can visit Ibb, whose fame comes from a very old baobab that grows right before the village.

In 630 kilometres of Ta, towards Sana ', Al Janad was the first mosque built in Yemen in, of the living of the Prophet Mohammed by one of his disciples, Mu'dha ibn Jabal. The Great Mosque of Sana'a would only be the second, according to the historian Hamdani. The pilgrimage to Al Janad was considered by the Muslim world as important as that of Mecca, at the very point of replacing him in the life of a believer. It included two minarets originally. The one that currently exists is ayyubide, with a summit added by the Ottomans. The mosque has been restored many times. The latest renovation, rather unfortunate, added marble to the feet of the columns.

Built in the th century, it is covered by six domes and houses Koranic schools next to the prayer room.