Biggest Mosque after Baitullah and Masjid Nabawi with Tallest Minaret in the World | Jaama Al Jazair
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#DjamaaElDjazaïr (Arabic: جامع الجزائر), also known as the Great Mosque of #Algiers (French: Grande mosquée d'Alger), is a large mosque located in Algiers, Algeria.

it features the world's tallest minaret at 265 metres (869 feet), can accommodate 120,000 people, and is the world's largest mosque only after Islam's holiest sites in Saudi Arabia's Mecca and Medina.Sha. 16, 1445 AH

Algeria inaugurates world’s third-largest mosque ahead of Ramadan

was built over seven years in the form of a modernist structure extending across 27.75 hectares (almost 70 acres), decorated in wood and marble and containing Arab and North African flourishes. It reportedly has a helicopter landing pad and a library capable of housing up to one million books.

The mosque’s official opening allows it to host many public prayers and events during the month of Ramadan, which starts around March 10.

But its #inauguration event was largely ceremonial, as it has been open to international tourists and state visitors to Algeria for about five years, and first opened for prayers in October 2020 but without #Tebboune as he was suffering from COVID-19.

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