Algeria

A Romano-Byzantine minor basilica perched on the 124-meter Bologhine promontory overlooking the Bay of Algiers, designed by architect Jean-Eugène Fromageau and consecrated on 2 July 1872. Enshrining a bronze statue of the Black Virgin and bearing the celebrated apse inscription asking Our Lady of Africa to pray for us and for the Muslims, it was restored and reopened in 2010.

Bologhine, Alger, Algérie (trên mỏm đất cao 124 mét nhìn ra vịnh Alger)

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The largest mosque in Africa and the third-largest mosque in the world, occupying a 27.75-hectare coastal precinct overlooking the Bay of Algiers in the Mohammadia district of Algiers, constructed from 2012 and officially inaugurated on February 25, 2024 to the designs of German architectural firm KSP Jurgen Engel Architekten, featuring the world's tallest minaret at 265 meters, a 70-meter double-shell golden dome supported by 618 octagonal columns, capacity for 120,000 worshippers, the Dar al-Qur'an postgraduate institute, and a million-volume library.

Grand National Mosque of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Largest Mosque in Africa (Third-Largest Mosque in the World after Mecca and Medina), and World Record Holder for the Tallest Minaret on Earth (265 Meters)Avenue de l'ALN, Commune of Mohammadia (overlooking the Bay of Algiers near Oued El Harrach), Algiers 16058, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria

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One of the oldest and best-preserved masterpieces of Almoravid and Zayyanid Islamic architecture in North Africa, founded in central Tlemcen in 1082 CE by the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin, sumptuously embellished in 1136 CE under his son Emir Ali ibn Yusuf with a thirteen-aisled hypostyle hall, a Cordoban-inspired Mihrab, and a world-renowned openwork ribbed stucco dome pierced by delicate floral lacework, and enlarged in 1236 CE with a 29.15-meter brick minaret by Zayyanid founder Yaghmurasan ibn Ziyan.

First-Class National Historical Monument of Algeria and One of the Three Great Surviving Architectural Masterpieces of the Almoravid Dynasty (Al-Murabitun) in the MaghrebPlace Emir Abdelkader (Historic Tagrart Quarter), Central Tlemcen 13000, Tlemcen Province, Northwestern Algeria

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A remarkable eleventh- to fourteenth-century ensemble of five fortified oasis towns (the Pentapolis of El-Atteuf, Bounoura, Melika, Ghardaia, and Beni Isguen) founded between 1012 and 1353 CE by Mozabite Berbers of the Ibadi branch of Islam along the arid Oued M'Zab valley in the northern Algerian Sahara, where concentric tiers of pastel earthen houses rise around a crowning fortress-mosque with a tapering adobe minaret on each rocky outcrop, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982 and celebrated for inspiring modernist master Le Corbusier.

UNESCO World Heritage Site (Inscribed 1982, Ref. 188, Core Zone 665.03 Hectares under Criteria ii, iii, and v) and Protected Sacred Urban Heritage of the Ibadi Mozabite CommunityOued M'Zab Valley (stretching 10 km around Ghardaia, 600 km south of Algiers), Ghardaia Province 47000, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria

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The premier Sufi pilgrimage sanctuary of the western Maghreb and the finest surviving Marinid architectural ensemble in Algeria, terraced into the rocky hillside of El-Eubbad overlooking Tlemcen around the mausoleum of the twelfth-century Andalusi mystic Abu Madyan Shu'ayb (Sidi Boumediene, d. 1197/1198 CE) and endowed with a monumental zellij-tiled mosque (1339 CE), bronze-sheathed cedar doors, ritual bathhouse, and the 1347 CE Madrasa where the great historian Ibn Khaldun once taught.

Preeminent Sufi Pilgrimage Sanctuary of the Western Maghreb and First-Class National Historical Monument of Marinid Architecture in AlgeriaHillside Quarter of El-Eubbad (Al-Ubbad, 2 km southeast of central Tlemcen), Tlemcen 13000, Tlemcen Province, Northwestern Algeria

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