GRANDE MOSQUÉE D'ALGER
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This mosque, the largest in Africa, is a monumental structure with a prayer hall and exhibition space.
Here is an absolutely unmissable visit! Very recent, the works were finished in 2019, while the inauguration of this mosque took place in October 2020. This monumental work saw the largest mosque in Africa and the third largest mosque in the world after Mecca and Medina (both are located in Saudi Arabia) come out of the ground.
On some 30 hectares, the site has a prayer hall, a reception area for exhibitions, a museum of art and history of Islam, a media library, amphitheaters and a research center. In total, the site can accommodate 120,000 people and the prayer hall can accommodate up to 35,000 worshippers.
Its minaret is the highest in the world, reaching 265 meters high. Accessible to the public thanks to panoramic elevators, the view from the top is breathtaking over Algiers and its bay.
It won the Chicago Athenaeum Museum's annual Architecture and Design Award in 2021 and the European Center for Architecture Award.
However, its exorbitant cost - it would have cost nearly 2 billion dollars - has caused controversy. " The construction of the Great Mosque of Algiers is not a national necessity like the other necessary infrastructures and investments, for which Algeria is very late and which are the only guarantors of an economy of stable and perennial self-sufficiency," wrote the authors of a petition requesting the stop of the works, from the beginning of the construction.
