The Kasbah Mosque
Almohad mosque with an impressive minaret - جامع القـصـبـة
The Kasbah Mosque is the Friday mosque for the Kasbah (walled citadel). In principle the Kasbah's Muslim residents would all come together for midday prayers here every Friday.
The mosque was built in 1190 under the Almohads, but some time around 1570, a huge explosion at a neighbouring munitions store demolished most of it, and it had to be rebuilt.
Luckily, the original minaret survived the explosion. It's plain up to the level of the mosque roof, and above that it's decorated with a design called darj w ktarf, which is very common on Almohad buildings. It's still plastered and painted, as it would originally have been, so it gives an idea of what the Koutoubia Mosque's minaret must have looked like back in the day.