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Hamouda Pasha Al-Hanafi Mosque
(جامع حمودة باشا الحنفي)

Title	Hamouda Pasha Al-Hanafi Mosque
Title Original	جامع حمودة باشا الحنفي
Author	Possible participation of Italian prisoners.
Author Original	احتمال مشاركة سجناء إيطاليين
Publication Date:	1066 AH/1655 AD
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID	monument;ISL;tn;Mon01;8;ar
Library Location	Tunisia, in the Medina, Tunisia
Date	1066 AH/1655 AD
Notes	Hamouda Bashab Mosque is associated with the model of funerary mosques due to the association of the tomb of its founder with a place of worship. Three corridors extend across courtyards and surround the prayer hall. On the eastern side, there is the side gallery, which is a colonnaded gallery with an external sanctuary, which allows it to receive believers during the summer. The western courtyard, in the northwestern corner, includes an octagonal minaret, rising on a square base, built with medium courses of sandstone containing shell scatterings of a dark ocher colour. The opposite corner is occupied by the soil where the body of Hamouda Pasha and his relatives were buried. The latter is arranged in a square plan, with a side length of 8.20 metres, and is covered with a pyramidal roof of green verdant tiles. Each of its four surfaces is decorated with a central decorative band, surrounded by a rectangular panel surmounted by two niches. The façade combined geometric decoration of courses alternating between black and white marble, and floral decorative elements, executed according to the Italian style, inlaid with marble or engraved. The prayer hall takes the form of a rectangular plan (approximately 24 This hall was divided into seven naves and four bays, and is covered with semi-cylindrical vaults ending in cross vaults. The vaults are supported by forty-eight columns, their trunks are rounded, and they are crowned with capitals bearing spiral decorations of the new Ionic style. The walls were covered with marble, making way, at the level of the front panels, for carved gypsum decoration. The mihrab is preceded by a dome bearing an inscription dating the landmark. The mihrab opens with a semicircular arch, the arch of which is made of two colours, and is supported by two small columns of black stone. The lower part of the niche is covered with colored marble with alternating decorative borders, white, pink, and grey. The half dome of the niche is covered with gypsum engraved with rhombic interlacing decorations. As for the pulpit, it is simple and covered with white marble.
Sample Text	Mohamed Béji Ben Mami “Hamouda Pasha Al-Hanafi Mosque” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;tn;Mon01;8;ar

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Hamouda Pasha Al-Hanafi Mosque

(جامع حمودة باشا الحنفي)

Author Possible participation of Italian prisoners.

Author Original احتمال مشاركة سجناء إيطاليين

Publication Date 1066 AH/1655 AD

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Record ID monument;ISL;tn;Mon01;8;ar

Library Location Tunisia, in the Medina, Tunisia

Date 1066 AH/1655 AD

Notes Hamouda Bashab Mosque is associated with the model of funerary mosques due to the association of the tomb of its founder with a place of worship. Three corridors extend across courtyards and surround the prayer hall. On the eastern side, there is the side gallery, which is a colonnaded gallery with an external sanctuary, which allows it to receive believers during the summer. The western courtyard, in the northwestern corner, includes an octagonal minaret, rising on a square base, built with medium courses of sandstone containing shell scatterings of a dark ocher colour. The opposite corner is occupied by the soil where the body of Hamouda Pasha and his relatives were buried. The latter is arranged in a square plan, with a side length of 8.20 metres, and is covered with a pyramidal roof of green verdant tiles. Each of its four surfaces is decorated with a central decorative band, surrounded by a rectangular panel surmounted by two niches. The façade combined geometric decoration of courses alternating between black and white marble, and floral decorative elements, executed according to the Italian style, inlaid with marble or engraved. The prayer hall takes the form of a rectangular plan (approximately 24 This hall was divided into seven naves and four bays, and is covered with semi-cylindrical vaults ending in cross vaults. The vaults are supported by forty-eight columns, their trunks are rounded, and they are crowned with capitals bearing spiral decorations of the new Ionic style. The walls were covered with marble, making way, at the level of the front panels, for carved gypsum decoration. The mihrab is preceded by a dome bearing an inscription dating the landmark. The mihrab opens with a semicircular arch, the arch of which is made of two colours, and is supported by two small columns of black stone. The lower part of the niche is covered with colored marble with alternating decorative borders, white, pink, and grey. The half dome of the niche is covered with gypsum engraved with rhombic interlacing decorations. As for the pulpit, it is simple and covered with white marble.

Sample Text Mohamed Béji Ben Mami “Hamouda Pasha Al-Hanafi Mosque” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;tn;Mon01;8;ar