El-Oued Mosque
| El-Oued Mosque | |
|---|---|
| File:El-oued mosque.jpg Entrance and minaret (2014 photo) | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Sunni Islam |
| Location | |
| Location | Fez, Morocco |
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| Architecture | |
| Type | Mosque |
| Style | Moorish (Moroccan) |
| Founder | Abu Sa'id Uthman II (as madrasa)
Moulay Slimane (as mosque) |
| Established | 1323 CE (as madrasa)
Between 1792 and 1822 (as mosque) |
| Minaret | 1 |
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.
History
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The mosque is located on the site of the former Madrasa el-Oued or (Madrasa al-Wadi), a madrasa built in 1321[1] or 1323 by the Marinid sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II.[2] The madrasa's name ("Mosque of the River") referred to the fact that it was located on top of the Oued Masmouda, a water canal branching off the Oued Fes river system which historically supplied water to much of the Andalus quarter of Fes el-Bali.[3][2] (The canal has since been covered over for decades.[2]) Along with the Madrasa as-Sahrij and the Madrasa as-Sba'iyyin, it was built to provide lodging and teaching for students studying at the nearby Andalus Mosque, much as the Seffarine and al-Attarine Madrasas served students at the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque across the river.[3][4][5][2] Although the Andalus mosque was thus a major center of scholarship and study in the middle ages, it was eventually eclipsed by the Qarawiyyin Mosque/University and fell into relative decline, possibly making the madrasas less important.[3] In the late 18th or early 19th century the Alawi sultan Moulay Slimane (who also built a number of other mosques in Fes) demolished the madrasa and built a new mosque over it, which became one of the main Friday mosques of the district.[3]
Architecture
[edit | edit source]The mosque follows the standard model of Moroccan mosque architecture. It has a prominent square-shaft minaret with minor decorative framing around its windows. The mosque's layout is distinguished by a proportionally very large rectangular courtyard (sahn), partly filled with fruit trees.[2]
See also
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- ^ a b c d e Mosquée el oued (Information plaque). Posted on a wall near the entrance of the mosque. ADER-Fes. November 2014.
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