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In 836 it was demolished and rebuilt in its present form by the Aghlabid ruler Ziyadat Allah. Additional work was completed in 862 in the reign of Abu Ibrahim Ahmad. The mosque is a roughly rectangular structure with maximum interior dimensions of 122×70 m; it has a court surrounded by arcades and a hypostyle prayer-hall occupying about one-third of the surface area. The prayer-hall, which has 17 aisles perpendicular to the qibla wall, has domes at either end of the wider central aisle. One stands over the bay in front of the mihrab, and the other abuts the courtyard. The colonnades of the central aisle were doubled in the later 9th century to strengthen the building. The mihrab itself is decorated with carved marble panels and surrounded by lustre tiles, and the carved wooden minbar is the oldest such pulpit preserved in Islam. To the right of the minbar the magnificent wooden Maqsra, or enclosure for the sovereign, was added by the Zirid ruler al-Mu‛izz ibn Badis (reg 1016–62). The three-storey minaret opposite the prayer-hall was modelled on the lighthouse at Salakta (anc. Sullecthum) near by. The mosque was restored by the Hafsids (reg 1228–1534), who rebuilt the court arcades and added the eastern entrance known as the Bab Lalla Rihana (1294), and again in the 17th and 18th centuries by the beys of Tunis, who remodeled the ceilings. The mosque was a centre of orthodoxy in western Islamic lands, and the city seems to have been important for the production of Koran manuscripts. The prestige of the mosque made it a model for others at Tunis and Mahdia. Grove Dictionary of Art."},{"label":"Subject (Time Period)","value":["Nineteenth century [LCSH]"]},{"label":"Physical Dimensions of Original","value":"20.9 x 27 cm"},{"label":"Image View Type","value":"Mosque; photographs"},{"label":"Collecting Area","value":["Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library"]},{"label":"Collection Name","value":["19th Century Architectural Photography Collection"]},{"label":"Subject (Geographic)","value":["Qayrawān (Tunisia) [LCNAF]"]},{"label":"Description","value":"There is a 1 cm long scratch on the surface of the photograph in the lower left."},{"label":"Subject (Topical)","value":["Islamic architecture [LCSH]","Mosques [LCSH]"]},{"label":"Genre Form","value":["Photographs [LCGFT]"]},{"label":"Type","value":["Still image"]},{"label":"Medium","value":["albumen paper","black and white photography"]},{"label":"Inscription","value":"lower center, in white print: 254 Sidi-Okba - La Mosquee ND. Phot.; lower right, in white: 254; on album page, lower left, in black ink: Sidi-Okba, The Mosque"},{"label":"Link to Catalog Record","value":"https://forum.jstor.org/assets/1341138/representation-view"},{"label":"Copyright Statement","value":"<a href=\"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/\"> This Rights Statement should be used for Items for which the copyright status has not been determined conclusively, but for which the organization that intends to make the Item available has reasonable cause to believe that the underlying Work is not covered by copyright or related rights anymore. This Rights Statement should not be used for Orphan Works (which are assumed to be in-copyright) or for Items where the organization that intends to make the Item available has not undertaken an effort to ascertain the copyright status of the underlying Work.</a>"},{"label":"Public Note","value":"Volume 01: Africa/Sicily Page 13"},{"label":"Metadata Status","value":"Metadata reviewed by Metadata Services staff."},{"label":"Copyright Status","value":["No Known Copyright"]},{"label":"Creator","value":["Neurdein, E. 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