Great Mosque of Qayrawan

The great mosque of al-Qayrawan stands on a site called the Great Market, in the middle of the markets, in the city of al-Qayrawan. ¹

Al-Maqdisi saw it around 375 AH and counted it larger than the mosque of Ibn Tulun. ¹

Its columns are of marble, its floor is paved with marble, its courtyard is of marble, and its gutters are of lead. ¹

It has doors, among them the Gate of the Market, the Gate of the Money-changers, the Gate of the Pilgrims, the Gate of the Idlers, the Gate of the Minaret, the Gate of the Dyers, the Gate of the Disciples, the Gate of the Thursday Market, the Gate of the Ablutions and the Gate of the Elite. ¹

The museum's data says that Uqba ibn Nafi founded it along with the laying out of al-Qayrawan, that the Aghlabids rebuilt it, and it dates its founding to about 670 CE. This date needs an additional source.