Illustration
Part of the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, modern-day Tunisia, with the main prayer hall. The mosque was established by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi in 670 CE along with the town of Kairouan itself, which was used as a base from which to launch his campaigns toward Mauretania in the west.
License & Copyright
Based on Wikipedia content that has been reviewed, edited, and republished.
Original image by Colin Hepburn. Uploaded by Emma Groeneveld, published on 15 March 2018. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon a work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Related Images
Statue of Kahina
Umayyad Courtyard
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo Egypt
House of the Beautiful Courtyard, Herculaneum
Entrance Courtyard, Asklepieion of Pergamon
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, Iran
Cite This Work
APA Style
Hepburn, C. (2018, March 15). Kairouan Mosque Courtyard. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8319/kairouan-mosque-courtyard/
Chicago Style
Hepburn, Colin. "Kairouan Mosque Courtyard." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified March 15, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8319/kairouan-mosque-courtyard/.
MLA Style
Hepburn, Colin. "Kairouan Mosque Courtyard." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 15 Mar 2018, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8319/kairouan-mosque-courtyard/. Web. 09 Jul 2025.
