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Zitouna Mosque
The oldest mosque in Tunis, at the centre of the medina, and for centuries the country's leading seat of learning.
- Editor's score
- 4.8
- Visit
- 30 min
- Price
- Free
About
Founded around the turn of the eighth century, the Zitouna, or Mosque of the Olive, owes its present form largely to a ninth-century rebuilding that reused many antique columns from Carthage. Additions and restorations have followed ever since. The mosque grew into a centre of higher learning, today the University of Ez-Zitouna, and from the thirteenth century it was Tunisia's most important educational institution.
Best time to go: Dress modestly and visit outside prayer times; the souks around it are busiest in the late morning.
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