Usta Murad Mosque ( ar, مسجد اسطا مراد), was a

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n mosque located 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 ...

. It does not exist anymore.

Localization

The mosque was located in El Hokam Street ( ar, نهج الحكام).

Etymology

It got its name from its founder, the

Muradid The Muradid dynasty was a dynasty of beys that ruled Tunisia from 1613 to 1702. They were succeeded in 1705 by the Husainid dynasty. History The dynasty was founded by Murad I Bey, a janissary of Corsican origin. Ramdan Bey, ruler of Tunis, had ...

Dey Dey (Arabic: داي), from the Turkish honorific title ''dayı'', literally meaning uncle, was the title given to the rulers of the Regency of Algiers (Algeria), Tripoli,Bertarelli (1929), p. 203. and Tunis under the Ottoman Empire from 1671 o ...

Usta Murad Usta Murad (1570, Levanto - June 1640, Tunis; french: Ousta Mourad) was a corsair captain and later Dey of Tunis from 1637 until his death. Biography Born in Liguria, he was the son of Francesco Di Rio. The chroniclers do not record whether h ...

who founded the Ghar el Melh

harbor A harbor (American English), harbour (British English; see spelling differences), or haven is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term ''harbor'' is often used interchangeably with ''port'', which is a ...

Porto Farina Ghar el-Melh ( ar, غارالملح, ''Ghar al-Milh'', "Salt Grotto"), the classical antiquity, classical Rusucmona and CastraDelia and French Tunisia, colonial is a town and former port on the southern side of Cape Farina in Bizerte Governorate ...

.Paul Sebag, Tunis au XVIIe siècle : une cité barbaresque au temps de la course, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1989, 267 p. (, lire en ligne rchive, p. 98-99

History

The mosque was built between 1637 and 1640, which was the

's reign period.

References

Mosques in Tunis 17th-century mosques {{Tunisia-mosque-stub