Mohammed V Mosque, Tangier

[1] Funding for the mosque's construction was provided from Kuwait,[2] and acknowledged by the renaming of the square in front of the mosque as Place du Koweit.

According to local lore, a visiting Kuwaiti sheikh had been displeased by the fact that the bell tower of the nearby Catholic Cathedral dominated the skyline of that part of Tangier, and offered financing so that a Muslim tower would surpass it.

[3]: 110  Be that as it may, the Mohammed V Mosque's minaret is the tallest in Tangier.

[4] The mosque complex also includes the seat of the regional Ulama council, a theological institute and boarding school named after Ibn Atiyah al-Andalusi [ar], the local delegation of the Moroccan Ministry of Habous & Islamic Affairs, and a library.

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