Hassan Tower | |
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Native name صومعة حسان (Arabic) | |
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Location | Rabat, Morocco |
Coordinates | 34°01′26.98″N 6°49′22.17″W / 34.0241611°N 6.8228250°W |
Built | 1191-1199 CE |
Architectural style(s) | Moorish (Almohad) |
Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan (Arabic: صومعة حسان; is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco.[1] It was commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, near the end of the 12th century. The tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world,[2] and the mosque, if completed, would have been the largest in the western Muslim world. When al-Mansur died in 1199, construction on the mosque stopped. The minaret was left standing at a height of 44 meters.[3] The rest of the mosque was also left incomplete, with only the beginnings of several walls and 348 columns being constructed.[4] The tower, along with the remains of the mosque and the modern Mausoleum of Mohammed V, forms an important historical and tourist complex in Rabat.
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