Description of the attraction
The Hamud Pasha Mosque is rightfully considered one of the main attractions and one of the most beautiful mosques in the country. No wonder they are the first to try to get into it when visiting Tunisia. It was built on the territory of this state in the 17th century during the domination of the Turkish Empire.
The architectural ensemble of the mosque is made in the Muslim Baroque style, which was widespread in the states of the East at that time in connection with the Turkish influence, and which replaced the heavy style of the Aghlabid era. Attention is drawn to the marble door and ceilings covered with green tiles and decorated with golden crescents. In the elements framing the two marble columns of the central niche of the mihrab, and the capitals of the columns of the main hall (prayer room), the influence of Italian architecture can be traced - the stone carving is delicate, graceful, there is no feeling of the roughness of the stone material on which the work was done.
This Hanafi mosque ends with an octahedral minaret. In the very center of the mosque is the tomb (gorbet) of Hamud Pasha, one of the most revered and famous beys of Tunisia, who lived in the 18th century. The tomb was built in 1655, and the ancestors from the dynasty of the founders of the mosque - the Muradids - are buried in the hall closest to it - the prayer room.
The Hamud Pasha Mosque became the prototype for the Habib Bourguiba Mosque in the city of Monastir on the northwestern coast of Tunisia.
