Koutoubia Mosque
The Koutoubia Mosque or the Koutoubia silo is one of the Almohad architectural monuments (in Marrakech),
where the first Kutubiyya mosque was built by the Andalusian engineer.
Al-Maliki lives on the authority of the Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min bin Ali al-Kumi in the year 1147 AD.
The second mosque was built in 1158 AD at the same time as the Hassan Tower in Rabat and the Giralda in Seville,
Andalusia.
The architectural form of the minaret shows that it was influenced by Andalusian architecture,
characterized by its Islamic decoration.
It is similar in size to the first building,
and is organized in a rectangular prayer hall that includes seventeen porticos directed perpendicular to the qibla,
carried by symmetrical columns and arches and unique capitals reminiscent of those we find in the Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez.
The convergence of the Qibla portico with its five domes and the axial portico is a design faithful to the characteristics of the Almohad religious architecture that had a great influence in the various parts of the Islamic West
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