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Bab Bhar Mosque

mosque in Tunisia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4837213 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bab Bhar Mosque (Arabic: جامع باب بحر), also known as Ez-Zraariâ Mosque, is a mosque in Tunis, Tunisia.

Localization

It is located in the east side of the old town of Tunis, in the Helket Ez-Zitoun impasse, near Bab Bhar.

History

This mosque was built by Ahmed Ibn Marzouk Ibn Abi Omara Mousseilli in 1282.

It has been restored between 1969 and 1973.

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“Bab Bhar Mosque” enters the record as mosque in Tunisia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bhar, Mosque and mosque can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1282, 1969, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1281. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bhar, Mosque and mosque.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4837213. Authority coordinates are 36.800, 10.176. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1282, 1969 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bab Bhar Mosque” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.