List of mosques in Algeria

This is a list of mosques in Algeria . According to Algeria Press Service as of 2020 ^[update] , there were approximately 18,400 mosques in Algeria. ^[1]

List

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Name	Images	Location	Year	Notes
Sidi Okba Mosque		Sidi Okba	686	[2]
Ghardaia Mosque		Ghardaia	10th century
Sidi Bou Merouane Mosque  [ fr ]		Annaba	1033
Great Mosque of Algiers		Algiers	1097	[3]
Sidi Ramadan Mosque		Algiers	1097
Great Mosque of Tlemcen		Tlemcen	1136	[4] [5]
Great Mosque of Nedroma		Nedroma	1145
Sidi Bellahsen Mosque		Tlemcen	1296	Repurposed as an Islamic art museum
Mansourah Mosque		Tlemcen	1302-1303
El Mechouar Mosque		Tlemcen	1310
Sidi Boumediene Mosque		Tlemcen	1339	Preserves the tomb of Abu Madyan, an influential Sufi
Sidi El Haloui		Tlemcen	1353	Built by the Marinid Sultan Abou Inane Fares in honor of Abou Abdallah Echoudsy, a qadi of Seville accused of witchcraft and conspiring against the Zayyanid monarch under the Marinid occupation of the city.
Shrine of Sidi Abder Rahman		Algiers	1471	Commemorates Sidi Abder Rahman El Thaelebi, a renowned Islamic scholar
El Kawthar Mosque		Blida	1533	Renovated and expanded in 1981
Safir Mosque		Algiers	1534
Ketchaoua Mosque		Algiers	1612
Ali Bitchin Mosque		Algiers	1622
Al-Qods Mosque  [ fr ]		Bouira	1652
El Barani Mosque		Algiers	1653
Djama’a al-Djedid		Algiers	1660	[6]
Mausoleum of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine		Algiers	1791	Preserves the tomb of Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine, the founder of Rahmaniyya Sufi order and one of the seven Patron Saints of Algiers.
Bey Mohamed el-Kebir Mosque		Oran	1792
Salah Bey Mosque		Annaba	1791-1792
Hassan Pasha Mosque		Oran	1796
Imam al-Houari Mosque		Oran	1792-1799	[7]
Ben Farès Mosque		Algiers	1865	Built as a synagogue in 1865; converted to a mosque in 1962.
Al-Rahma Mosque, Algiers  [ ar ]		Algiers	1897
El Rahman Mosque		Cherchell	19th century	Built in the 19th century as a church; converted to a mosque in 1964.
Sidi Khaled Mosque		Sidi Khaled, Biskra	1912	The current structure is a 1917 reconstruction. It is believed to contain the tomb of the pre-Islamic figure, Khalid bin Sinan, who is cited in local traditions as having moved to Algeria. It is currently in a state of disrepair but is still a popular spot for visits from locals.
Abdellah Ben Salem Mosque		Oran	1918
Al-Umma Mosque		Algiers	1951
Emir Abdelkader Mosque		Constantine	1994
1st November of 1954 Great Mosque		Batna	2003
20th August of 1956 Mosque		Ouzellaguen	2011
Al-Aman Mosque		Souk Ahras	2011
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque		Oran	2015
Jemma Al Djazair		Algiers	2019	Houses the world's tallest minaret that is 265 metres (869 ft) high and is the third-largest mosque in the world, [8] [9] [10] [11] capable of accommodating 120,000 worshippers.
Sidi Ghanim Mosque  [ fr ]		Mila

See also

• Algeria portal
• Islam portal

• Islam in Algeria
• Zawiyas in Algeria

References

1. "عدد المساجد بالجزائر تجاوز 18400 مسجد" [The number of mosques in Algeria has exceeded 18,400.]. Algeria Press Service (in Arabic). 8 February 2021.
2. "Sidi 'Uqba (mosque, minaret and tomb)". Museum With No Frontiers. Archived from the original on 19 December 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
3. "Fountain in Mosque of El Kebir, Algiers, Algeria". World Digital Library . 1899. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
4. "Qantara - Great Mosque of Tlemcen". www.qantara-med.org. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
5. Marçais, Georges (1954). L'architecture musulmane d'Occident. Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques.
6. Lafer, Ali (2017). "Djamaʽa al-Djedid (New Mosque)". Discover Islamic Art. Museum with No Frontiers. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
7. "Sidi El-Houari Mosque". mosqpedia.org. Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture. 2025. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
8. "Algeria builds giant mosque with world's tallest minaret". The Guardian . 6 May 2016. Archived from the original on 5 July 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
9. "Bouteflika's mosque seen as monument to megalomania in Algeria". Arab News. 16 April 2019. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
10. "La Grande Mosquée d'Alger, le chantier de trop du président déchu Abdelaziz Bouteflika". Le Monde.fr. Le Monde. 3 April 2019. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
11. بطاقة فنية - جامع الجزائر (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 29 March 2024. Retrieved 29 March 2024.

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