Koutoubia Mosque

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Hassan, our guide, with the minaret in back		 mosque04.jpg (72827 bytes)
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The three globes on top of the minaret signify: bottom - Christianity, middle - Jewish, top - Muslim		 mosque02.jpg (47016 bytes)
Ruins on the left from old mosque and rebuilt mosque on the right
|  Marrakech

As we enter Marrakech through the Bab Aguenaou gate, we come to one of the city's biggest mosques, called the Yaqub al Mansur mosque after the sultan of the same name who built it.  It was finished in 1190.   (Koutoubia Mosque - 230 foot minaret)