Great Fatimid Mosque

The Great Fatimid Mosque in Mahdia was built on a rocky outcrop in the year 916 during the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Mahdi, and nothing remains of it dating back to this period as it is except for the entrance gallery and the northern gallery of the courtyard, while the rest of the building was rebuilt in the sixties of the twentieth century, and it consists of a gallery The entrance protruding from a pointed horseshoe arch, and the external facade of the mosque is carved with horseshoe arch outlets on two floors separated by a mold, and in the lower part the outlets are flat, while those in the upper section are flat at the back but semicircular at the top. The Great Fatimid Mosque is the first example of a prominent terrace in Moorish religious architecture, reminiscent of the arches of the Roman era and the entrances of the Umayyad castles.