Koutoubia-Moschee

The Koutoubia Mosque is the largest mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco. It stands in the southwest of the city, close to the Jemaa el-Fnaa square, and is surrounded by extensive gardens. Regarded as an important example of Maghrebi and Moroccan architecture, it is protected as Moroccan cultural heritage and forms part of a World Heritage site. Its minaret, roughly 77 metres tall, is the building's most prominent feature. The name refers to the "Kutubiyyin", the booksellers, after a market for books and manuscripts that once stood nearby, so the mosque is sometimes described as the Mosque of the Booksellers.

The mosque is recorded as having been built in 1147 on the orders of the Almohad ruler Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali al-Kumi. German-language sources place the structure in the second half of the 12th century and count it among the oldest mosques in Morocco.

The nearby market of booksellers, from which the mosque takes its name, was burned during the period of French colonial rule in Morocco.

In 2023 the upper part of the minaret was damaged by the Al Haouz earthquake and was subsequently restored.