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 "id": "building/mansura-mosque-tlemcen",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "mansura-mosque-tlemcen",
 "label": {
  "ar": "جامع المنصورة ومئذنته (تلمسان)",
  "en": "Mosque and minaret of al-Mansura, Tlemcen",
  "ur": "منصورہ کی مسجد اور مینار (تلمسان)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أطلال جامع في المنصورة غربي تلمسان، تقوم مئذنته الحجرية على محور البناء وكانت مدخله الرئيس، ارتفاعها 125 قدماً، ونقش يذكر أنها بنيت بأمر أبي يعقوب يوسف {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28} {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.30}.",
  "en": "The ruined mosque of al-Mansura west of Tlemcen, whose hewn-stone minaret, 125 feet high, stands on the building's axis and served as its main entrance; an inscription records that it was built by order of Abu Ya'qub Yusuf {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28} {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.30}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects",
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/mongol-post-mongol"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture",
  "mosques"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "patron": "person/abu-yaqub-yusuf-an-nasr",
  "location": "place/mansura-tlemcen",
  "status_now": "ruined",
  "materials": [
   "stone"
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Newcomb 1929, printed pp. 28, 30",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)",
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "run": "ocr-harvest-2026-11-04"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (OCR-harvest worker H)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في [[place/mansura-tlemcen|المنصورة]]، على نحو ميل ونصف غربي [[place/tlemcen|تلمسان]]، أطلال جامع يرى كثيرون أن مئذنته من أنبل ما بنى أهل المغرب. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28} {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.30}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المئذنة",
     "markdown": "تقوم المئذنة على محور البناء وكانت مدخله الرئيس، وبابها منقوش نقشاً جميلاً، وارتفاعها 125 قدماً، وأكثرها من الحجر المنحوت، ونقش فيها يذكر أنها بنيت بأمر [[person/abu-yaqub-yusuf-an-nasr|أبي يعقوب يوسف]]. ونقل [[person/rexford-newcomb|نيوكومب]] عن سالادان أنها، كصومعة حسان في الرباط، مزينة في أعلاها بشبكة من الأشرطة المتشابكة تعلوها عقود صماء، وأن بلاطات خزفية خضراء وبنية كانت تلمع في فرجات النقش وقد زال أكثرها. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.30}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/mansura-mosque-tlemcen",
    "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, pp. 28, 30"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "At [[place/mansura-tlemcen|al-Mansura]], about a mile and a half west of [[place/tlemcen|Tlemcen]], stand the ruins of a mosque whose minaret many consider one of the noblest the Maghreb produced. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28} {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.30}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The minaret",
     "markdown": "The minaret stands on the axis of the building and served as its main entrance, with a finely carved doorway. It is 125 feet high, largely of hewn stone, and an inscription records that it was erected by order of [[person/abu-yaqub-yusuf-an-nasr|Abu Ya'qub Yusuf]]. [[person/rexford-newcomb|Newcomb]] quotes Saladin: like the Hassan tower at Rabat, its upper part is dressed with a trellis of interlacing bands with blind arcades above, and green and brown faience tiles, now mostly lost, once glinted in the hollows of the carving. {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.30}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/mansura-mosque-tlemcen",
    "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, pp. 28, 30"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "[[place/tlemcen|تلمسان]] سے تقریباً ڈیڑھ میل مغرب میں [[place/mansura-tlemcen|منصورہ]] میں ایک مسجد کے کھنڈر ہیں جس کے مینار کو بہت سے لوگ اہلِ مغرب کے بنائے ہوئے عمدہ ترین میناروں میں شمار کرتے ہیں۔ {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.28} {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.30}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مینار",
     "markdown": "مینار عمارت کے محور پر ہے اور اس کا مرکزی دروازہ تھا، جس پر خوبصورت نقاشی ہے۔ یہ 125 فٹ اونچا اور زیادہ تر تراشے ہوئے پتھر کا ہے، اور ایک کتبہ بتاتا ہے کہ یہ [[person/abu-yaqub-yusuf-an-nasr|ابو یعقوب یوسف]] کے حکم سے بنا۔ [[person/rexford-newcomb|نیوکومب]] سالادین سے نقل کرتے ہیں کہ رباط کے برجِ حسان کی طرح اس کا بالائی حصہ باہم گندھی پٹیوں کی جالی سے آراستہ ہے جس کے اوپر اندھی محرابیں ہیں، اور نقاشی کی دراڑوں میں سبز اور بھوری چمکدار ٹائلیں چمکتی تھیں جو اب زیادہ تر غائب ہیں۔ {cite:newcomb-decorative-tiles-north-africa-1929 p.30}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "ur",
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     "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, pp. 28, 30"
    }
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-04"
  }
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  "building/great-mosque-of-algiers",
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