Mosque Name: Hasan Mosque
Country: Morocco
City: Rabat
Year of construction (AH): 591
Year of construction (AD): 1195
GPS: 34.023814 -6.822614
ArchNet: http://archnet.org/sites/2557
Gibson Classification: Parallel
Rebuilt facing Mecca: never
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Description:
The Hasan Mosque was commissioned by Ya’qub al-Mansur to serve as the principal congregational mosque of the Almohad empire. In that year, Ya’qub al-Mansur celebrated a major victory over the Christian forces in Spain, and to commemorate his conquest he founded the Almohad city of Rabat at the fortress that was used as the Moroccan base during the war. The mosque was to be one of the new city’s monuments to his victory, and it would have been the largest Umayyad mosque in the world if fully constructed. The Mosque of Samarra was the largest Abbasid mosque. The Hasan mosque was unfinished at the time when Ya’qub handed the caliphate to his son. Later the Rabat project was abandoned in favor of the more developed neighboring city Salé. The mosque was never completed and remains in a partially constructed state to this day.
To learn more of the final years of caliph Ya’qub al-Mansur, see our page on: Sultan Yaqub Tomb.
https://nabataea.net/explore/cities_and_sites/sultan-yaqub-tomb/
The plan of the massive mosque as seen from a satellite photo. the Hasan Tower is at the top, and the Mausoleum of Mohammed V at the bottom.
The Hasan Tower was only half completed, yet it towers above the whole complex.
Part of the old wall
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