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Ben Youssef MinaretIn the background of the Jama el Fna, the minaret of the Ben Youssef Mosque.

The Minaret of the Koutobia mosqueThe Koutobia mosque is to Marrakech what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. The name comes from 'books' in Arabic, and reflect that there were a book/manuscript trading souk near the mosque. It is build at the time of the second Almohad ruler, Abd El-Mumin. It is the biggest mosque of Marrakech. Its minaret was used as a model for the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower in Rabat.

The minaret is 12,5 meter wide and 67,5 meter high.

Inside of the Koutobia mosqueThe Koutobia mosque is to Marrakech what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. The name comes from 'books' in Arabic, and reflect that there were a book/manuscript trading souk near the mosque. It is build at the time of the second Almohad ruler, Abd El-Mumin. It is the biggest mosque of Marrakech. Its minaret was used as a model for the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower in Rabat.

The insides of the Koutobia mosqueThe Koutobia mosque is to Marrakech what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. The name comes from 'books' in Arabic, and reflect that there were a book/manuscript trading souk near the mosque. It is build at the time of the second Almohad ruler, Abd El-Mumin. It is the biggest mosque of Marrakech. Its minaret was used as a model for the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower in Rabat.

The minaret of the Koutobia mosqueThe Koutobia mosque is to Marrakech what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. The name comes from 'books' in Arabic, and reflect that there were a book/manuscript trading souk near the mosque. It is build at the time of the second Almohad ruler, Abd El-Mumin. It is the biggest mosque of Marrakech. Its minaret was used as a model for the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower in Rabat.

The minaret is 12,5 meter wide and 67,5 meter high.

The "double" koutobia mosqueThe Koutobia mosque is to Marrakech what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. The name comes from 'books' in Arabic, and reflect that there were a book/manuscript trading souk near the mosque. It is build at the time of the second Almohad ruler, Abd El-Mumin. It is the biggest mosque of Marrakech. Its minaret was used as a model for the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower in Rabat.

The Koutobia used to be a "double mosque". The other part of the mosque is destroyed. Only this is left.

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