Sidi Okba Mosque

Biskra Province · Algeria

Sidi Okba Mosque, Algeria
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A desert-town mosque near Biskra reputedly holding the tomb of the 7th-century conqueror Uqba ibn Nafi. Its carved wooden mihrab is among the oldest surviving in the Maghreb.

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