Tinmel (Berber languages: Tin Mel or Tin Mal, ) is a small mountain village in the High Atlas 100 km from Marrakesh, Morocco. Tinmel was the cradle of the Berber Almohad empire,
History
With the seizure of
Marrakesh in 1147, Tinmel became the spiritual capital and the artistic centre of the Almohad Caliphate. The village is home to the tombs of the Almohad rulers. In Tinmel, the Almohad dirham, symbol of its economic prosperity, was struck.
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Tinmal Mosque
The
Tinmal Mosque is a mosque located in the
High Atlas mountains of North Africa. It was built in 1156 to commemorate the founder of the Almohad dynasty,
Ibn Tumart. The edifice is one of the two mosques in
Morocco open to non-Muslims, the other being the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. The prototype for the Tinmal mosque was the Great Mosque of Taza, also built by Abd al-Mu'min. The
Koutoubia in
Marrakech was in its turn modelled on it.
On 8 September 2023 a powerful earthquake crumbled the mosque’s intricate and graceful . A team of , historians and engineers had nearly finished months of work restoring the mosque set deep in the mountains of Morocco.[New York Times, September 2023]
World Heritage Status
The Tinmel mosque was added to the
UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 1 July 1995 in the Cultural category.
[ Mosquée de Tinmel - UNESCO World Heritage Centre]
Sources
External links
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MWNF [2]
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Front of the mosque [3]
