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Bahia Palace entry. Bahia Palace and Gardens was built in the 19th century and was the home for Bou Ahmed his four wives and concubines.
November - December 2014.
Holiday in Morocco.
The Bahia Palace was created by Si Moussa, grand vizier of the sultan, for his personal use.
November - December 2014.
Holiday in Morocco.
The Bahia Palace was created by Si Moussa, grand vizier of the sultan, for his personal use.
Grand mosque of Hassan II Casablanca. Completed in 1994. The largest mosque in Morocco, with the tallest minaret in the world, its prayer hall can accommodate up to 25,000 faithful and another 80,000 in the courtyard. The mosque interior has fine examples of Moroccan architectural motifs and craftsmanship.
November - December 2014.
Holiday in Morocco.
The Bahia Palace was created by Si Moussa, grand vizier of the sultan, for his personal use.
Fantastic baking facilities available for the community as most people do not have their own ovens and can not afford such luxuries. The bread dough is made at home, the kids take it to the bakery before school and at lunch time collect the loaves to take home to the family.
Grand mosque of Hassan II Casablanca. Completed in 1994. The largest mosque in Morocco, with the tallest minaret in the world, its prayer hall can accommodate up to 25,000 faithful and another 80,000 in the courtyard. The mosque interior has fine examples of Moroccan architectural motifs and craftsmanship.
Grand mosque of Hassan II Casablanca. Completed in 1994. The largest mosque in Morocco, with the tallest minaret in the world, its prayer hall can accommodate up to 25,000 faithful and another 80,000 in the courtyard. The mosque interior has fine examples of Moroccan architectural motifs and craftsmanship.
Bahia Palace and Gardens was built in the 19th century and was the home for Bou Ahmed his four wives and concubines.
The Bahia Palace was built by two generations of Grand Viziers from the same family in the 19th century.
The building came into the possession of the Moroccan sultan on the death of the son, Ahmed bin Mūsa (Ba Ahmed) and then became the official residence of the French resident minister, before reverting to royal ownership in 1956.
The family remains influential to this day, with a descendent recently serving as Minister of the Interior and then Ambassador to France.
Bahia Palace and Gardens was built in the 19th century and was the home for Bou Ahmed his four wives and concubines.
November - December 2014.
Holiday in Morocco.
The Bahia Palace was created by Si Moussa, grand vizier of the sultan, for his personal use.
Bahia Palace and Gardens was built in the 19th century and was the home for Bou Ahmed his four wives and concubines.
Bahia Palace and Gardens was built in the 19th century and was the home for Bou Ahmed his four wives and concubines.
The Atlas mountains -just a lunch place in Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate -literally 'noiselessly' and called 'The door of the desert'- is located on an elevation of 1160 metres (3810ft) in the middle of a bare plateau, south of the High Atlas mountains. To the south of the town is the desert. The town is chiefly inhabited by Berbers, who constructed many of the prominent kasbahs and buildings for which the area is known for.
for more information on Ouarzazate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate
I'm glad we at least got this little taste of the architecture. Though, because it's the only one that's open, it makes it feel all the more touristy.
This madrasa is, for sure, an extremely old and historic and significant site in itself. Not some pale comparison, and not a modern reproduction. But even so, if it's the only such site you're allowed into, and "just" a madrasa, not a real mosque, it does make you feel like you're being given some kind of Disneyland treatment - like here's the second-tier, not as good, place, to satisfy the tourists. Like going to Rome and being allowed into all the incredible, amazing, historical churches in Rome but not into anything at all in the Vatican because you're not Catholic.
Zellij tiles. The 16th century Madrasa is named after the adjacent mosque, and was once the largest colleges in North Africa. It closed in 1960.
The Bahia Palace was built by two generations of Grand Viziers from the same family in the 19th century.
The building came into the possession of the Moroccan sultan on the death of the son, Ahmed bin Mūsa (Ba Ahmed) and then became the official residence of the French resident minister, before reverting to royal ownership in 1956.
The family remains influential to this day, with a descendent recently serving as Minister of the Interior and then Ambassador to France.
Bahia Palace and Gardens was built in the 19th century and was the home for Bou Ahmed his four wives and concubines.
Student Dormitories. The 16th century Madrasa is named after the adjacent mosque, and was once the largest colleges in North Africa. It closed in 1960.
Located in Fes, Madrasa Bou Inania was founded in 1351. It is an excellent example of Marinid architecture and the last madrasa built by the Marinids. Leo Africanus studied at this madrasa
The 16th century Madrasa is named after the adjacent mosque, and was once the largest colleges in North Africa. It closed in 1960.
Facing northward. At the entrance to the Kasbah of the Udayas.
For the list of my primary sources for this series, see the bottom of the Part 1 essay.
How well I remember standing next to this, the Bab Oudaya, the Bab El-Kabir, the Bab Lakbir, or the Great Gate of the Kasbah of the Udayas—other versions and transliterations also exist. That was the moment I first beheld the true magnificence of Islamic architecture. And, in this specific case, the Moroccan-Amohad version thereof. For me, it was an epiphany that did much to modify my understanding of the beautiful.
In 1976 this great work of art was in need of some serious restoration, as is apparent here. Yet the rough and pitted surfaces gave the structure a timeless and primal quality. It almost made me think that this work of grace and patiently elaborated grandeur had risen from the Earth's crust all on its own.
However, if you look at the Great Gate on Google Earth Street View today, you’ll see that it’s in much better shape. Instead of a ramshackle scaffold behind a boarded-up entryway, there are iron-embossed timber doors filling the horseshoe arch. And the stonework has received some much-needed attention.
The primary building material employed throughout the Bab Oudaya is the Salé Calcarenite. Quarried just across the mouth of the Bou Regreg, it is of Pliocene-to-Quaternary age.
Calcarenites are a strange sort of limestone composed of fossil fragments set in a calcite matrix. Under the hand lens this mixture is highly suggestive of a certain health-bestowing cereal much in favor with upscale Neoliberals breakfasting in their custom-designed solaria. Architectural historians, many of them Neoliberal too, mistake calcarenite for sandstone with depressing regularity.
Wherever this offbeat carbonate rock is found, from Morocco to Sicily to southern Indiana, it’s an instant and enduring hit with quarriers and builders. Much of its popularity is attributable to the stone’s great workability: it can be sawn, shaped, shipped, and sculpted with great facility. But its grainy, porous nature also ensures that it’s easily undermined by water and dissolved salts. And carbonaceous particles in soot serve as a catalyst that converts the calcite binder into the softer and more soluble gypsum.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Architectural Geology of Rabat album.
The Bahia Palace was built by two generations of Grand Viziers from the same family in the 19th century.
The building came into the possession of the Moroccan sultan on the death of the son, Ahmed bin Mūsa (Ba Ahmed) and then became the official residence of the French resident minister, before reverting to royal ownership in 1956.
The family remains influential to this day, with a descendent recently serving as Minister of the Interior and then Ambassador to France.
November - December 2014.
Holiday in Morocco.
The Bahia Palace was created by Si Moussa, grand vizier of the sultan, for his personal use.
The Bahia Palace was built by two generations of Grand Viziers from the same family in the 19th century.
The building came into the possession of the Moroccan sultan on the death of the son, Ahmed bin Mūsa (Ba Ahmed) and then became the official residence of the French resident minister, before reverting to royal ownership in 1956.
The family remains influential to this day, with a descendent recently serving as Minister of the Interior and then Ambassador to France.
The 16th century Madrasa is named after the adjacent mosque, and was once the largest colleges in North Africa. It closed in 1960.
A museum in the beautiful full interior of a former 19th century palace. we went to see the building rather than the contempoary art.
The Bahia Palace was built by two generations of Grand Viziers from the same family in the 19th century.
The building came into the possession of the Moroccan sultan on the death of the son, Ahmed bin Mūsa (Ba Ahmed) and then became the official residence of the French resident minister, before reverting to royal ownership in 1956.
The family remains influential to this day, with a descendent recently serving as Minister of the Interior and then Ambassador to France.