Lalla Abla Mosque on the Port of Tangier
The previous Port Mosque in 2013 before demolition

The Lalla Abla Mosque, also known as Port Mosque, is a mosque in Tangier, Morocco, completed in 2017 and dedicated by King Mohammed VI in July 2018. It replaced a smaller mosque on a nearby location, also known as the Port Mosque.[1]

It is named after Mohammed VI's grandmother Lalla Abla bint Tahar, echoing the dedication 35 years earlier of Tangier's Mohammed V Mosque to Lalla Abla's husband and Mohammed VI's grandfather.[2]

The mosque occupies a 5,712 square meters land lot, in a prominent location on Tangier's fishing port that was inaugurated by Mohammed VI a few weeks earlier in June 2018.[3] It can host over 1,900 worshippers, in two separate prayer halls for men and women.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Princess Lalla 'Abla's Mosque - Tangier, Morocco". Archnet.
  2. ↑ "Tanger : une mosquée à la mémoire de Mohammed V". Aujourd'hui Le Maroc. 20 October 2006.
  3. ↑ "King Mohammed VI Inaugurates 'Princess Lalla Abla' Mosque in Tangier". Morocco World News. 31 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "Réception de la fête du Trône: voici les personnalités reçues au Palais Marchane à Tanger". Malijet. 4 August 2018.
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