Almoravid Koubba

The Almoravid Koubba, or Koubba Ba'adiyn, is a small domed pavilion near the Ben Youssef Mosque and the only substantially intact building in Marrakesh surviving from the Almoravid period of the early twelfth century. Excavated below the modern street level in the 1950s, it once served ritual ablutions connected to a nearby mosque. Its modest exterior conceals a richly worked interior dome carved with interlacing arches and scalloped forms. As a rare witness to the city's founding dynasty, it is of outsized importance.