Lalla Abla Mosque | |
Native Name: | مسجد للا عبلة |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Religious Affiliation: | Islam |
Festivals: | --> |
Organizational Status: | --> |
Municipality: | Tangier |
Country: | Morocco |
Map Type: | Morocco |
Map Size: | 220px |
Map Relief: | yes |
Coordinates: | 35.7895°N -5.807°W |
Architecture Type: | mosque |
Established: | 2017 |
Date Destroyed: | --> |
Capacity: | 1,900 worshippers |
Site Area: | 5,712 m2 |
Elevation Ft: | --> |
The Lalla Abla Mosque (ar|مسجد للا عبلة), also known as Port Mosque, is a mosque in Tangier, Morocco, completed in 2017 and dedicated by King Mohammed VI in July 2018. It replaced a smaller mosque on a nearby location, also known as the Port Mosque.[1]
It is named after Mohammed VI's grandmother Lalla Abla bint Tahar, echoing the dedication 35 years earlier of Tangier's Mohammed V Mosque to Lalla Abla's husband and Mohammed VI's grandfather.[2]
The mosque occupies a 5,712 square meters land lot, in a prominent location on Tangier's fishing port that was inaugurated by Mohammed VI a few weeks earlier in June 2018.[3] It can host over 1,900 worshippers, in two separate prayer halls for men and women.[4]