Sidi El Bahri Mosque

Thanks to this strategic location, the Sidi El Bahri mosque played other roles besides its religious function: it had a defensive function, controlling the passengers flood through of the medina's main entrance, Bab Diwan, as well as an economic role, supervising commercial activities and financial exchanges, especially during the Hafsid era.

It is mentioned in registers of deeds of habous as well as in the inventory of monuments set by the students of the Military School of Bardo in the middle of the 19th century.

The architectural style of the mihrab of this mosque suggests that it was built during the hafsid dynasty's reign.

[2] According to an epigraphic inscription that decorates the monument, the construction of the building is attributed to Al Kotti family, known for its famous constructors in the medina of Sfax.

Its mihrab, of simple style, is very similar to the one in Sidi Ali Ennouri Mausoleum's prayer room.