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Hassan Tower

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location_on Rabat, Rabat Sale Kenitra, Morocco
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About Hassan Tower

Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan is the minaret of a deficient mosque in Rabat, Morocco. Commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third Caliph of the Almohad Caliphate in 1195, the pinnacle was expected to be the biggest minaret on the planet alongside the mosque, additionally proposed to be the world's largest. When al-Mansur passed on in 1199, development on the mosque ceased. The pinnacle came to 44 m, about a portion of its proposed 86 m 260 ft stature.

Whatever is left of the mosque was likewise left inadequate, with just the beginnings of a few dividers and 348 segments being constructed. The pinnacle, made of red sandstone, alongside the remaining parts of the mosque and the cutting edge Mausoleum of Mohammed V, shapes an imperative chronicled and traveler complex in Rabat. Founder of the Hassan Tower Yaqub al-Mansur was an individual from the Almohad Caliphate, a Berber Muslim domain in the Maghreb and Iberia.

The pinnacle, as indicated by a few conventions, was outlined by a cosmologist and mathematician named Jabir ibn Aflah who was additionally expected to have planned Hassan's sister tower, the Giralda of Seville in Al Andalus cutting edge Spain. Both of the towers were demonstrated on the minaret in view of the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech, yet in addition drew impact from the antiquated Egyptian Lighthouse of Alexandria for its tallness and strategy for domination, a progression of ramps.

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