Moulay al-Yazid Mosque (Kasbah Mosque)
Almohad-era congregational mosque with a richly carved minaret, rebuilt twice after a gunpowder blast.
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This guide to the Moulay al-Yazid Mosque in Marrakesh begins with a minaret that once carried long cracks down its brick face, and a gunpowder explosion some time in the sixteenth century. It reaches back to the Almohad caliph who built the royal mosque at the heart of the Kasbah around eleven eighty-five, and on to the Saadi and later sultans who repaired it. Best heard standing in the street facing the tower.
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