Tunisie

The monument, dated nineteenth century, consists of three subsets:
• a prayer hall rising in the middle of a fenced yard where the floor is covered with a coating of lime;
• domestic outbuildings including a main hall that housed Koranic teaching flanked by two small rooms for one housing, the other to keep the food supply;
• External dependencies including a room for ritual ablutions and a Koranic school, which make for a grain mill and a bakery underground!
The prayer hall, massive, with a stocky minaret, whose exterior walls were strengthened by buttresses betrays military concerns: that the mosque Fadhloun owned a chain of little mosques remote coasts and represent a second line of defense in case of enemy attack.