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Ketchaoua Mosque is integral to the ancient history of the Casbah, recognized on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Its exact location was at the centre of the city at the intersection of the roads from the lower Casbah leading to the five gates of the Algiers city. An unconfirmed
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of white marble columns. The beauty of the mosque's chambers, minarets and ceilings is accentuated by the distinctly
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had a cross mounted on top of the cathedral. Between 1845 and 1860 the old mosque was demolished and a new church was built. After the liberation of
Algeria from French rule, the cathedral's restoration as the Ketchaoua Mosque in 1962 is considered as "having significant religious and cultural
412:(earlier known as Lavigere). This event has also been described as "correlatively for the reconquest of Algeria’s authenticity as a supreme symbol of the nation’s recovery of its integrity." The bells of the cathedral were given in 1965 to the church of
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1081:Great Mosque of Constantine
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