El Fell Mosque or 'mosque of the chance' ( ar, جامع الفال) is a small mosque located in the Azzafine hood in the

Medina of Tunis The Medina of Tunis is the medina quarter of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. The Medina contains some 700 monuments, including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and fountains dating from ...

Localization

The mosque is located in 101 the Kasbah street near the entrance of Souk En Nhas.

History

According to the historian Mohamed Belkhodja, it was built by the

Zirids The Zirid dynasty ( ar, الزيريون, translit=az-zīriyyūn), Banu Ziri ( ar, بنو زيري, translit=banū zīrī), or the Zirid state ( ar, الدولة الزيرية, translit=ad-dawla az-zīriyya) was a Sanhaja Berber dynasty from ...

, a dynasty that ruled the whole

Maghreb The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...

region from 972 and 1014, and then a part of it ( Ifriqiya) until 1148.

Etymology

People visit the mosque to get some luck while the

Ulama In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious ...

s disagree with this belief.

References

Berber architecture 11th-century mosques Mosques in the medina of Tunis {{Tunisia-mosque-stub