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Mosque of the Palate of Mechouar
High bond of the history of Tlemcen, 8 century old witness of a civilization arabo-Moslem woman and hours record of the "Pearl of the Maghreb", the old citadel of the MECHOUAR is a rectangle from approximately 200 out of 150 m built in 1145 on the site even where king Almoravide YOUCEF BEN TACHFINE had planted his tent at the time of the head office D ' Agadir. It was simply, at the beginning, of the buildings being used as residence to the Almoravides governors then after them, with the Almohades governors. Its destiny changed with the arrival with the capacity of Zianides. It was YAGHMORACENE which, after having given up its royal residence of QASR EL QADIM, close to the large mosque, threw there the foundations of a new palate: THE MECHOUAR. Its successors brought many embellishments there. The mosque was built in 1317 /1318 by ABOU HAJVIMOU FOAMED ler, then its successors made their ordinary oratory of it. Mechouar became, at the same time as a palate, a kind of forced residence where it retained close of him the hostages taken to the rebels of MEDEA and with all the tribes. The belt of high walls which entonre was to it the?uvre ABOU AHMED ABBOTS, 1éme Prince Zianide. It was the official residence of Princes Zianides: y lived too. the personnel of the court and the Emirs foreign, and, it was there that kings de Tlemcen held council with their ministers from where the name of MECHOUAR. A brilliant life of court existed there under the reign of ABOU HAMMOU II, and a reception eclipsed in splendour all the others: It was that of the celebration of Mouloud, birthday of the birth of the Prophet, where the Prince preached in the principal room, in the medium of the dignitaries, completed their clothes of pageantry and in the presence of the people, this splendid reception decorated by the presence of the poets who came to recite theirs there towards finished by a meal and the prayer of the morning made jointly. |
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