Sidi Bellahsen Mosque

Sidi Belhassen Mosque is a ancient mosque in the city of Tlemcen, Algeria. The mosque is located within the southwest of the square next to the Great Mosque of Tlemcen. Today it serves as a museum. The mosque become based in 1296 by means of the emir Abi Ibrahim ibn Yahya throughout the Zayyanid generation as inscribed on the plank of the western wall within the prayer hall, as well as the 2 groves product of gypsum on pinnacle of the mihrab.

The cutting-edge name of the mosque is considered derived from the name of the neighborhood qadi and ulama Abi al-Hassan who served beneath the rule of the Sultan Abi Sayeed Uthman 1283 to 1303. The mosque has rather modest appearance as compared to the alternative mosques of the identical era. The mosque has no sahn and makes use of comparable tiles for the floor and the qibla wall. The ceiling was consisted of interlocking logs fabricated from cedar bushes, that is the first of its type in Algeria and predates three or 4 centuries the style hired within the Andalusian Moorish architecture.