One year after a devastating earthquake struck Morocco in September 2023, residents of the mountain village of Tinmel are working to rebuild their homes and the 12th-century Great Mosque of Tinmel.
The mosque, founded in 1147 by the Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min right after he conquered Marrakech from the Almoravids, served as the model for the Giralda mosque of Seville, in al-Andalus during ...
La Giralda – the adjacent tower and, until recently, the tallest landmark in Seville – is one of the few remains of the site's original mosque, built by the 12th-century Berber-Muslim Almohad ...