mosquée El Mouassine

Al-Shorafaa Mosque, also known as the Mouassine Mosque or al-Muwassin Mosque, is a major mosque in the Mouassine neighbourhood of Marrakesh, Morocco. It was designed as the Friday mosque of a newly redeveloped quarter and formed the central element of a wider religious and charitable complex that also included a madrasa, a hammam, a library and the Mouassine Fountain. The building follows the typical Moroccan architecture of its period, with the exception of its minaret, which is unusually short and plain. The mosque lies within the historic fabric of Marrakesh that forms part of a World Heritage Site.

The mosque was built in the 16th century by order of the Saadian sultan Abdallah al-Ghalib; our record gives the year of construction as 1572. It was planned as the Friday mosque of the redeveloped Mouassine neighbourhood and stood at the heart of a complex that combined a madrasa, a hammam, a library and a public fountain.