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The Koutoubia Mosque ‎

Marrakesh's emblem - جامع الكتبية

Koutoubia

The Koutoubia Mosque, was built by the Almohads to be the city’s Friday congregational mosque. The original version was completed in 1157. Its minaret, visible across town, is the city's emblem.

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The minaret

The minaret is 77m tall, with a ratio of 5:1 height to width. That worked so well that it was taken as being the perfect minaret shape from then on. Rabat’s Hassan Tower and Seville’s Giralda are both modelled on it.

Originally the minaret was covered with plaster and painted, like the Kasbah Mosque‎, but the plaster fell off over the years, and it was decided during restoration in the 1990s that bare stone looks better on it.

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1147–1269: Almohad

The Big Six Sights

Central Medina Sights

Mosques

Marrakesh In-a-Day

The city's most important sights if you have just one day

Marrakesh-In-2-Days (Day 1)

The Ville Nouvelle, the souks & the Jemaa

Text © Daniel Jacobs

Images by Anna & Michal, Daniel Jacobs, James Byrum, Jorge Láscar, Jose Luis Garcia de los Salmones, Mzximvs VdB, Valentin Munitsa