#ketchaoua

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria-1901. Ketchaoua mosque was known during the colonial era as Saint-Philippe cathedral. It became a mosque in 1962 just after Algeria gained its independence. Maurice Bernard.

[bouba-baker]

KETCHAOUA MOSQUE #ketchaoua #mosque #ketchaouamosque #masjid #minaret #algiers #algeria #sky #beauty #instagood #architecture #ottoman #architecturephotography #photography #algeriatravel #topalgeriaphoto #tourismalgeria #photooftheday #bouba #boubablog (at Ketchaoua Mosque) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp-TsmxAvG-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hpicmxiz4rzv

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria. When Ketchaoua mosque used to be a cathedral during the colonization era. 

The ottoman style mosque was built in 1436 but was transformed into a cathedral in 1832 by the French during colonization. In 1962 and after the country’s independence, it became again a mosque. 

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria. Ketchaoua mosque in Algiers.

@amehanas

[mydearalgeria]

The Ketchaoua Mosque has graced the lower Casbah of Algiers since the early 1600s. During colonial times, the French converted the mosque into the Cathédrale Saint-Philippe, but maintained numerous Quranic inscriptions in the interior while adding Neo-Mauresque flourishes to the facade. Upon Algeria’s independence in 1962, the building was again converted into a mosque, and one of its cathedral bells gifted to a church in Bretagne. In a nod to the mosque’s Ottoman origins, the Turkish government launched a renovation project in 2015, and Ketchaoua reopened earlier this year, a symbol of coexist-ence newly restored.

from @ibnibnbatouta

[henyloly]

Ketchaoua Mosque, built first in 1436, Basse Casbah , Algiers