Al-Wad School Mosque
mosque in Fez, Morocco
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Overview
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Al-Wad School Mosque, also known as El-Oued Mosque (Jama' al-Wad, literally "mosque of the river"), stands in Fes el-Bali, the historic medina of Fez, Morocco. According to the address on record, it lies in the Andalous quarter. It is part of a World Heritage Site. The building dates from the late 18th or early 19th century and occupies the site of an earlier madrasa of the same name.
History
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A madrasa of the same name originally stood on the site. According to the Arabic source text, it was built in 1323 on the order of the Marinid sultan Abu Said Uthman ibn Yaqub.
The present mosque was constructed in the late 18th or early 19th century in place of that madrasa. The sources do not give a more precise date.
From Wikipedia
The El-Oued Mosque (Arabic: جامع الواد, romanized: jama' al-wad, lit. 'mosque of the river'; Berber languages: ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⵏ ⵊⴰⵎⵄⵍⵡⴰⴷ) is a mosque in Fes el-Bali, the historic medina of Fez, Morocco. It was built in the late 18th or early 19th century on the site of a former 14th-century madrasa by the same name.
Source: Wikipedia, article “El-Oued Mosque”; quoted unchanged under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Read more on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources
Wikipedia (ar): https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Oued_Mosque
Wikipedia (fr): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosqu%C3%A9e_El_Ouad
Wikipedia (ur): https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF