Kairouan is known for being the city of the three hundred mosques

In her book “The Mosques of Kairouan“ published recently, the Syrian Dr. Engineer Najoua Othman has enumerated exactly 106. We are mentioning here only the most ancient and well-known mosques. These in general still carry the name of their founders :

- The Great mosque (Okba Ibn Nafaa)
- The Three doors mosque (Ibn Khairoon)
- The Attaoufik mosque (cemetery Jnah Lakdhar)
- The Al bey mosque (souk)
- The Abou Ishaki Touns Mosque (chorfa neighbourhood)
- The Abdallah Mosque (Abdallah Ibn Zoubair deceased in 74H)
- The Ansar Mosque (Raouafaa Ibn Thabet A1 deceased Ansari in 53 H)
- The Ibn Khaldoun Mosque (Al Marr)
- The Abou Meisar Mosque a (Bab Tunis)
- The Al Houssari Mosque

- The Sahabi Mosque (Abi Zamaa El Balaoui)
- The Abi Meisara Mosque
- The Hanach Mosque (Hanach Ibn Abdallah Sanaani deceased in 100H)
- The Habli Mosque (Abi Abdurrahman Al Habib Al Maafiri)
-  The Ibn Abi Sarh Mosque
- The Asaad Ibn Al Fourat Mosque (close by Barrouta)
- The Yahia Ibn Omar Mosque (close by Hamam Noaaman- Zoghbar)
- The Al Ansar Mosque (chorfa neighbourhood)

- The Abi Meisara Mosque
- The Hanach Mosque (Hanach Ibn Abdallah Sanaani deceased in 100H)
- The Habli Mosque (Abi Abdurrahman Al Habib Al Maafiri)
- The Ibn Abi Sarh Mosque
- The Asaad Ibn Al Fourat Mosque (close by Barrouta)
- The Yahia Ibn Omar Mosque (close by Hamam Noaaman- Zoghbar)
- The Al Ansar Mosque (chorfa neighbourhood)
- The Zitouna Mosque (Ismail Ibn Al Ansari deceased in 107H)
- The Aoun Ibn Youssef Mosque
- The Ibn Al lajam Mosque (Abou Mohamed Abdellah Ibn Said Al deceased Lajam in 331H)
- The Abi Al Foutouh Mosque
- The Rahbat Al Kouraychine Mosque
- The Al Mafza Mosque (close by the big Mosque)
- The Abdelmoutaleb Mosque
- The Essbaya Mosque (Rbat Riyah)
- The Mraydha Mosque (Houmet El Bey)
- The Sakay Mosque (Bab Jelladine)
- The Al Ouarda Mosque
- The Said Ibn Haddad Mosque (Al Jamma Neighborhood)
- The Aissa Ibn Mesquine Mosque (AI jamaa naighborhood)
- The Yahia Ibn Salam Mosque (Chorfa neighborhhod)
- The Ibn Naji Mosque (rehiba)
- The Dahmani Mosque (AI Jamaa neighbourhood)
- The Bab El Kedda Mosque (AI Jamaa)
- The Abi Ayach Al Fakih Mosque
- The Ahmed Ibn Abi Suleiman Mosque
- The Sidi Abdeljaber Mosque
- The Hassan Ibn Khaldoun Balaoui Mosque
- The Abi Bakr Ahmed Ibn Abderrahman Mosque (Kramta nrighborhood)
- The Assidra Mosque
- The Abi Al Hakam Mosque
- The Abi Zarjouna
- The Sidi Boudokhane Mosque
- The Ibn Abi Nasr Mosque

French colonial period :

During the colonial period there was only one mosque that was constructed by indigenous Tunisians outside the Ramparts of the old city. This Mosque was named the Negra Mosque (nearby Bab Jelladine). It was built at the same time as the primary school Al Fath and Al Aminia. Funds were collected from private donors in particular from Hadj Sghair NEGRA (1939) who was the president of the Carpet Traders Corporation of Kairouan and the President of the carpet fair.

Contemporary period :

- The Al Bemri Mosque (El Mansoura)
- The Romani Mosque (Sabra)
- The Sahabi Mosque (Sahabi)
- The Latif Mosque (Ennasr neighbourhood)
- The Ettakoua Mosque (Mohamed Boudoukhane neighbourhood)
- The Ibn Arafat Mosque (Road of Haffouz neighbourhood)
- The Bilal – Hassanet Mosque
- The Aouania Mosque (Al Aghalba neighbourhood)
- The Romania Mosque (Sabra)

Mohamed Rebai
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