Place Institution Islam
Great Mosque of Kairouan
جامع عقبة بن نافع ar مسجد جامع قیروان fa
Tunisian religious building and site of Islamic worship
- Dated from 670 CE
- Also called Mosque of Uqba, Sidi Ukbe Camii, Great Mosque of Qaywaran
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
- Uqba ibn Nafi ↗Named as founder
Arab Muslim general (died 683)
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 670 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Great Mosque of Kairouan, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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under 1 km awayKairouan
Tunisian town -
under 1 km awayKairouan Synagogue
Tunisian Synagogue, located in Kairouan -
under 1 km awayThree Doors Mosque
mosque in Tunisia -
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1.2 km awayZawiya of Sidi Sahib
zawiya in Kairouan, Tunisia -
51 km awayGreat Mosque of Sousse
mosque in Tunisia -
66 km awayHanafi Mosque of Bourguiba
mosque in Tunisia -
67 km awayGreat Mosque of Monastir
mosque in Tunisia -
72 km awayLeptis Parva
city of Ancient Rome
Connections
How Great Mosque of Kairouan connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 1
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
4 statements on this record
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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