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Djamaa El Djedid
Djamaa el Djedid (الجامع الجديد), also rendered Djamaa al-Djedid, or ''Jamaa El Jedid'' (meaning New Mosque) is a mosque in Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is dated to 1660/1070 AH by an inscription over its main entrance portal. That inscription also attributes its construction to al-Hajj Habib, a Janissary governor of the Algiers region appointed by the Ottoman imperial administration in Istanbul During the French colonial rule, the mosque was called the Mosquée de la Pêcherie and in English the Mosque of the Fisherman's Wharf (''Mesdjed el-Haoutin''). Architecture The central dome reaches a height of 24 meters and rests on four pillars via a drum and four pendentives. These four corners are enclosed by four octagonal cupolas. Of the areas between these square spaces, barrel vaults cover three of the sides whilst the fourth area, facing the ''qibla'' wall, is covered by a fourth vault that has three bays and is flanked on both sides by two aisles. Djamaa el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques de l'Algérie (web). and in 2020 was estimated to be around 4,500,000. Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the north-central portion of Algeria. Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore; the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the Casbah or citadel (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), above the sea. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle. Names The city's name is derived via French and Catalan ''Origins of Algiers'' by Louis Leschi, speech delivered June 16, 1941, published in ''El Djezair Sheets'', July 194History of Algeria . from the Arabic na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hizb Rateb
The Hizb Rateb ( ar, الحزب الراتب) is a collective recitation of Quran or dhikr or dua or wird done by murids and saliks in islamic sufism. Presentation The ''Hizb Rateb'' is a group tilawa of the Quran with one voice, in mosques, zawiyas, kuttabs and Quranic schools. This custom has been practised in the Maghreb countries since the tenth hijri century under the Almohad Caliphate, after Sheikh created the rules for collective reading with one tone. It has an allocated and known times, because it may be recitated after the Fajr prayer or after the Maghrib prayer. It may also be recitated before the Zuhr prayer or before the Asr prayer. Thus, in the countries of the Maghreb, the muslims used to recite the Quran together in what is known as the ''Hizb Rateb'', in line with the current custom in these states. See also * Hezzab * Bash Hezzab * Nass al-Houdhour * Salka * Tilawa * Idjaza *Sujud Tilawa The prostration of recitation ( ar, سجود التلاو ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religious Buildings And Structures Completed In 1660
Religion is usually defined as a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith,Tillich, P. (1957) ''Dynamics of faith''. Harper Perennial; (p. 1). a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosques In Algiers
This is a list of mosques in Algeria. According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowment in 2006, there are around 15,000 mosques in Algeria as a whole, of which 450 are in the capital city of Algiers. 90% of which are built after the independence of Algeria in 1962. ''Albayan''. Retrieved 11 January 2018. See also * *References {{list of mosques |
List Of Mosques In Africa
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Mosques
Lists of mosques cover mosques, places of worship for Muslims. The lists include the most famous, largest and oldest mosques, and mosques mentioned in the Quran, as well as lists of mosques in each region and country of the world. The major regions, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania are sorted alphabetically. The sub-regions, such as Northeast and Northwest Africa in Africa, and Arabia and South Asia in Asia, are sorted by the dates in which their first mosques were reportedly established, more or less, barring those that are mentioned by name in the Quran. General *List of mosques, a selection of mosques among the most famous, worldwide * List of largest mosques * List of the oldest mosques ** List of the oldest mosques#Mentioned in the Quran Asia * List of mosques in Asia * List of mosques in the Arab League **List of mosques in Afghanistan ** List of mosques in Bangladesh ** List of mosques in China *** List of mosques in Hong Kong *** List of mosques in Macau ** L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cultural Assets Of Algeria
List of cultural assets of Algeria includes monuments, natural sites and parks, and other cultural assets as classed by the Algerian Ministry of Culture. The Ministry's list was updated in September 2019 with 1,030 cultural assets across the country. Skikda Province has the highest number of assets at 131. Adrar Province There are 7 cultural assets in Adrar: 4 historical sites, 2 contemporary sites of cultural importance, and 1 nature reserve. Chlef Province Laghouat Province Oum El Bouaghi Province Batna Province Béjaïa Province Biskra Province Béchar Province Blida Province Bouira Province Tamanghasset Province Tébessa Province Tlemcen Province Tiaret Province Tizi Ouzou Provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islam In Algeria
Islam is the majority and state religion in Algeria. The vast majority of citizens are Sunni Muslims belonging to Maliki school of jurisprudence, with a minority of Ibadi Islam, most of whom live in the M'zab Valley region. Islam provides the society with its central social and cultural identity and gives most individuals their basic ethical and attitudinal orientation. Orthodox observance of the faith is much less widespread and steadfast than is identification with Islam. There are also Sufi philosophies which arose as a reaction to theoretical perspectives of some scholars. History Arrival of Islam Islam was first brought to Algeria by the Umayyad dynasty following the invasion of Uqba ibn Nafi, in a drawn-out process of conquest and conversion stretching from 670 to 711. The native Berbers were rapidly converted in large numbers, although some Christian and probably pagan communities would remain at least until Almoravid times. However, as in the Middle East itself, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Algeria
The Regency of Algiers ( ar, دولة الجزائر, translit=Dawlat al-Jaza'ir) was a state in North Africa lasting from 1516 to 1830, until it was conquered by the French. Situated between the regency of Tunis in the east, the Sultanate of Morocco (from 1553) in the west and Tuat as well as the country south of In Salah in the south (and the Spanish and Portuguese possessions of North Africa), the Regency originally extended its borders from La Calle in the east to Trara in the west and from Algiers to Biskra, and afterwards spread to the present eastern and western borders of Algeria. It had various degrees of autonomy throughout its existence, in some cases reaching complete independence, recognized even by the Ottoman sultan. The country was initially governed by governors appointed by the Ottoman sultan (1518–1659), rulers appointed by the Odjak of Algiers (1659–1710), and then Deys elected by the Divan of Algiers from (1710-1830). History Establishment From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ketchaoua Mosque
The Ketchaoua Mosque ( ar, جامع كتشاوة, ''Djamaa Ketchaoua'') is a mosque in the city of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It was built during the Ottoman rule in the 17th century and is located at the foot of the Casbah of Algiers, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The mosque stands on the first of the Casbah's many steep stairways and was logistically and symbolically the cynosure of the pre-colonial city of Algiers. The mosque is noted for its unique fusion of Moorish and Byzantine architecture. The mosque was originally built in 1612. Later, in 1845, it was converted during French rule, to the Cathedral of St Philippe, which remained so until 1962. The old mosque was demolished between 1845 and 1860 and a new church was built. It was converted into a mosque in 1962. In spite of these transitions over two different religious faiths in roughly the last four centuries, the mosque has retained its original grandeur and is one of the major attractions of Algiers. Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salka (Sufism)
The ''salka'' ( ar, السلكة) is a collective recitation of all sixty '' hizbs'' of the Quran done by ''murids'' and ''saliks'' in Islamic Sufism. Presentation The ''salka'' is a ''tilawa'' during the meeting of the ''murids'' in a zawiya or a mosque to continuously recite the entire Quran. ''Saliks'' and ''tolbas'' recite the ''salka'' periodically in order to demonstrate their memorization in the zawiyas and madrasas. Muslims used also to perform the ''salka'' in order to psalmody the whole Quran either for death, childbirth, marriage contract, or moving to a new residence. While the Hizb Rateb consists of reciting a ''juz''' of the Quran before or after one of the obligatory Islamic ''salawate'' (prayer), the ''salka'' consists of meeting in a place where believers continuously recite all of the sixty ''hizbs'' of the Quran from Al-Fatiha to An-Nas. Variants Depending on the season of the year, the ''salka'' can take two forms: * The ''Diurnal Salka'' ( ar, ال� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bash Hezzab
The Bash Hezzab ( ar, بَاشْ حَزَّاب) is the senior Hezzab supervising the Hizb Rateb and Salka in mosques and zawiyas in Algeria according to the Algerian Islamic reference under the supervision of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments. History The mosques in Algeria contain many Hezzabine supervised by the ''Bash Hezzab'' along with other employees who take care of these buildings of Muslim ibadah. Historically, the Djamaâ Sidi Ramdane in the Casbah of Algiers housed one ''Bash Hezzab'' which supervised five ''Hezzabine''. The mosque of Djamaa el Kebir was served by the mufti of Algiers, assisted by two ''Imams'', under their authority are placed a '' Moudaris'', explicator of the Quran, a ''Bash Hezzab'', head of the readers, six ''Hezzabine'' of first class, and twelve ''Hezzabine'' of second class. Characteristics The ''Bash Hezzab'' should be a senior hafiz of the Quran as a whole, with the narration of Warsh recitation. As for the ''Hez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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