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Popular Things To Do | Other Things To Do Tips | All Tips (40) This mosque was built by Yousef Ben Tashafin. The Great Moravid Sultan who built Both Marrakish and Meknas. The mosque was renovated during Mohammed Alnasser in 1199 as indicated by the inscription. It has a central court yard and three big prayer halls interconnected. I was able to take 3 pictures from inside the mosque before I was told that I should stop. This mosque is located in front of Madrasat Abou Inan.
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This school was built in 1345 by Sultan Abo Al- Hassan Almareeni (aka The Black Sultan) who also built Chillah, although for some reason it is named for his son Sultan Abo Inan. Both sultans are barried at chillah. You can enter this school daily from 9-12 and 3-6. It will cost 10 dh. You are free to take as many picture as you want. The school is located near the grand mosque.
The school has 2 floor surrounding acourt yard, There is a prayer hall and lots of class room. This is a superb example of high craftsmanship.
Students were entitled to free boarding.
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Moulay Ismail commissioned the gate himself, but it was not completed until after his reign in 1732. The gate is beautifully decorated in green and white ceramic tiling, and is flanked by two square bastions supported in part by marble columns taken from Volubilis. Leave a Comment
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El Hadim Square is a huge square in the middle of the town. It could be your good orientation point in Meknes.
The gate Bab Mansour, the museum Dar Jamai and Mdina are at the square. It's not so far to the
Moulay Ismail mausoleum and Kubbat as Sufara. Leave a Comment
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At one end of the souk is the wool market, where you can see baskets upon basket of wool waiting to be prepared into threads, dyed and then woven into carpets. Leave a Comment
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Completed in 1732, the Bab el-Mansour is an impressive gate marking the entrance to the old part of the city. It's named after the architect of the gate, Mansour, who was close to the infamous tyrant Moulay Ismail. Leave a Comment
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The covered market, just off Place el-Hadim, looked very tempting though there was no way I was walking through the narrow corridors here with all our bags after our experiences in the Medina.
We returned here in 2007 and had a proper look around and to be honest it wasn't as impressive as I had first thought. The meat section was fairly revolting with all parts of the animals on show, including plenty of severed heads and innumerable flies landing on the exposed pieces of meat. We had been thinking of buying picnic supplies here, but we chose the market in the Ville Nouvelle instead.
The sections nearest Place el-Hadim are probably the most interesting and some of the stalls have a great selection of cakes, sweets and pastries. But, again, the flies were landing all these which put us off a little. Leave a Comment
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There are good views over the medina, particularly of the Great Mosque, from the roof of Medersa Bou Inania. The Meknes medina is huge and can seem confusing and endless at street level. From the rooftop you get a good idea of its size and of the layout of some of the principle buildings Leave a Comment
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This house was built in 1882 by the Prime Minister Mohammed Aljamai. He never got to live in it as he had to relocate to Fes to be next to his nephew king Hassan the first. His brother actually lived in this house until the death of the King Hassan I. Moulay Abdul Aziz who ruled Morocco after the death of his father wasn't very kind to Aljamai brothers (his grand uncles) he imprisoned them in Tetouan and toke over their possessions. This building was used by the French as a hospital in the 1916 (St Lois Hospital) and then used as a governmental building, followed by fine art school and finally into a museum.
The house is very impressive. It has few furnished rooms, a neglected garden, in addition to a collection of display of ceramics, jewellery and the like. The museum is located to the north of Place Elhadem. It will cost you 10 DH to enter. Visiting daily from 9-12 and 3-6 daily closed on Tuesday. Photography not allowed but the house was empty so I was able to take 5 pictures
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Meknas has wallls that are 25 kms long and has numerous gait, I saw Bab Almansoor, Bab Alnoor, Bab Alkhamees (Thursday gate), Bab Jadid (New gate). the city was struck by an earth quake in 1755 that devastated lots of its buildings and you can only imagine how the city will look if this did not happen.
Bab Almansoor is named after the architect who built it. This Bab was ready during the rain of Mouly Abdullah (Ismail's son). Bab Alnoor (door of light) is next to Bab Almansoor. These 2 doors are South of Place Alhadem.
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