In Algiers
It wears 357,000 Swarovski crystals which, reflecting the light of the projectors, illuminate as in broad daylight the some 20,000 square meters of the prayer hall (the equivalent of three football fields).
Dipped in a 24-carat gold bath, this colossal chandelier weighing 9.5 tonnes and 13.70 meters in diameter, suspended by 38 steel cables from the first dome, thus takes the title of "
the largest chandelier in the world. world ”
, until then held by that of the Sheikh Zayed Mosque (
“ only ”
10 meters in diameter) in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).
On the spot, he disputes the star with the other "
star
»Of the site: the minaret, which, culminating at 265 meters, becomes the largest minaret in the world, third tower behind two other Emirati constructions, the Burj Khalifa tower and the Burj al-Arab (321 meters).
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In Algiers, the "pharaoh" Bouteflika builds the mosque of excess
The site of the great mosque of Algiers - wrongly called "
mosque
" in the absence of an equivalent in French to translate the Arabic word
djamaâ
, designating both the place of prayer but also
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