El Trouk Mosque

El Trouk Mosque
El Trouk Mosque
جامع الترك
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Location
Municipality	Medina of Sfax
Country	Tunisia
Architecture
Type	mosque
Specifications
Length	10 m
Width	10 m

El Trouk Mosque , or Mosque of the Turks (Arabic: جامع الترك) is one of the mosques of the Medina of Sfax, Tunisia.

Localisation

The mosque is located in the eastern part of Souk El Jomaa.^[1]

History

According to the memorial plaque next to the mihrab, the current mosque is the result of rebuilding an older one. According to some historians, it used to be a Hanafi mosque whose followers in Sfax were a minority and were almost all Turks, hence the name of the mosque. But other researchers suggest that the name of the mosque comes from its builder, Abdallah ben Mohamed ben Yahia Turki Pacha. This plaque dates back to 1706, date of the rise of Al Husayn Ibn Ali to the throne.^[1]

Architecture

The mosque has a square shape with 10 meters on each side.

References

^ ^a ^b Faouzi Mahfouth, Lotfi AbdelJawed (2016). Corpus of Arab inscriptions of Islamic monuments of Sfax. Sfax: Dar Amal. pp. 143–146.

[:0-1] Faouzi Mahfouth, Lotfi AbdelJawed (2016). Corpus of Arab inscriptions of Islamic monuments of Sfax. Sfax: Dar Amal. pp. 143–146.

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