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 "id": "building/great-mosque-of-algiers",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "great-mosque-of-algiers",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الجامع الكبير بالجزائر",
  "en": "Great Mosque of Algiers (Jamaa el-Kebir)",
  "ur": "الجزائر کی جامع کبیر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "يقال في التقليد إنه أقدم مساجد مدينة الجزائر، ويحمل منبره تاريخاً يدل على وجوده سنة 1018م، وبنى مئذنته أبو تاشفين سلطان تلمسان سنة 1324م {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.27}.",
  "en": "Traditionally said to be the oldest mosque of Algiers; its minbar bears a date showing it existed in 1018, and its minaret was built by Abu Tashfin, sultan of Tlemcen, in 1324 {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.27}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects",
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture",
  "mosques"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "location": "place/algiers",
  "sources": [
   "source/newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Newcomb 1929, printed pp. 27",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
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   "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الجامع الكبير في [[place/algiers|الجزائر]] يقال في التقليد إنه أقدم مساجد المدينة. يحمل منبره تاريخاً يدل على وجوده سنة 1018م، وبنى مئذنته [[person/abu-tashfin-i-zayyanid|أبو تاشفين]] سلطان تلمسان سنة 1324م. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.27}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بين مساجد الجزائر",
     "markdown": "يذكر [[person/rexford-newcomb|نيوكومب]] معه الجامع الجديد من القرن السابع عشر، ويرى أن أياً منهما ليس في أهمية الدور الموريسكية القديمة في المدينة من حيث الزخرفة الخزفية، كالقصبة وقصري الحاكم العام ورئيس الأساقفة، وكجامع [[building/sidi-abderrahman-mosque-algiers|سيدي عبد الرحمن]] الذي يكثر فيه البلاط. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.27}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/great-mosque-of-algiers",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
    "provenance": {
     "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929, p. 27"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Great Mosque (Jamaa el-Kebir) of [[place/algiers|Algiers]] is traditionally said to be the oldest mosque in the city. Its minbar bears a date showing that it existed in 1018, and its minaret was built by [[person/abu-tashfin-i-zayyanid|Abu Tashfin]], sultan of Tlemcen, in 1324. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.27}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Among the mosques of Algiers",
     "markdown": "[[person/rexford-newcomb|Newcomb]] names with it the New Mosque (Jamaa el-Jedid) of the seventeenth century, and judges neither as interesting for its tilework as the old Moorish houses of the city, such as the Kasbah and the palaces of the governor-general and the archbishop, or the [[building/sidi-abderrahman-mosque-algiers|mosque of Sidi Abd al-Rahman]] with its abundant tiles. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.27}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/great-mosque-of-algiers",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H), translation"
    ],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
    "provenance": {
     "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929, p. 27"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "[[place/algiers|الجزائر]] کی جامع کبیر کے بارے میں روایت ہے کہ یہ شہر کی سب سے قدیم مسجد ہے۔ اس کے منبر پر ایک تاریخ ہے جو 1018ء میں اس کے وجود کو ظاہر کرتی ہے، اور اس کا مینار تلمسان کے سلطان [[person/abu-tashfin-i-zayyanid|ابو تاشفین]] نے 1324ء میں بنوایا۔ {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.27}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الجزائر کی مسجدوں میں",
     "markdown": "[[person/rexford-newcomb|نیوکومب]] اس کے ساتھ سترہویں صدی کی جامع جدید کا ذکر کرتے ہیں، اور ٹائل کاری کے لحاظ سے دونوں کو شہر کے پرانے مغربی گھروں، جیسے قصبہ اور گورنر جنرل اور آرچ بشپ کے محلات، یا ٹائلوں سے بھرپور [[building/sidi-abderrahman-mosque-algiers|مسجد سیدی عبد الرحمن]] جتنا اہم نہیں سمجھتے۔ {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.27}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/great-mosque-of-algiers",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H), translation"
    ],
    "status": {
     "review": "published"
    },
    "provenance": {
     "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
     "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
     "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04",
     "source": "source/newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929, p. 27"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-04",
 "connections": [
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  "building/ketchaoua-mosque-algiers",
  "event/algiers-expedition-1541",
  "event/algiers-joins-ottoman-1519",
  "event/capture-of-algiers-1516",
  "event/capture-of-algiers-1529",
  "event/end-beylerbey-algiers-995",
  "event/french-occupation-algiers-1246",
  "event/uluj-ali-morocco-1581"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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 }
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