Kairaouine Mosque (Mosque of al-Qarawiyyin) Fes

Fes el-Bali, Qayruwan quarters Fes , Morocco
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    Fabulous Fes

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    Thursday morning we were up by 6:30 and headed to the train station where we said goodbye to our friend for the next few days. We had a small breakfast at the train station, where I finally had my first cup of mint tea (or as one hustler told us “Moroccan whiskey”). It was good and well balanced with the sugar. As I found out …

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    Fes: Moroccan Medina Maze

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    ... see what I'm talking about). Then, stopped at a mosque, walked down another section of the market, and peaked into the Kairaouine Mosque, but non-Muslims aren't allowed to enter mosques in Morocco.  Interestingly enough, Morocco is one of the only ...

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    Fabulous Fes

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    ... from our friend and continued on our way. As we moved on our way we got stuck going in circles around the Kairaouine Mosque and University (the largest Mosque in Africa and possibly oldest university in the world). Every entrance was a gorgeous gate and ...

  • 3

    Feast Day - Eid

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    ... red rivers (and my only jeans dragging in this muck), many couldn't stomach it but I was in my element. We visited the Kairaouine Mosque & University, which claims to be the world's oldest and had to bend over to walk through a very tight lane ...

  • 4

    Where am I? Fes!

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    ... allowed to take in such amazing craftsmanship.  We also stumbled our way into a glimpse of the supposedly hard-to-glimpse Kairaouine Mosque.  As non-believers we were not allowed actually into even the courtyard of this holy site but we had ...

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    Fes Medina

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    ... the call to prayer.  We did however get to go inside the Medersa El-Attarine which is an annex of the Kairaouine Mosque.  This exquisite building gave us some respite from the hustle and bustle of the medina as we appreciated its intricate ...

  • 6

    Rock the Kasba

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    ... holy day, the majority of the shops were closed, making the tour delightfully quiet and laid back.   We were taken the Kairaouine mosque (site of the worlds oldest university), and although not open to non-Muslims, we could peek in the doorway to ...

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    The market, the tanneries and some éclairs

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    ... also a cat sitting in a window sill, so that kept the boys happy. A little further on was the Kairaouine Mosque, at one time the largest mosque in Morocco and possibly the oldest university in the world, vying for that honour with one in Cairo.  It ...

  • 8

    Frantic Fes

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    ... both on the inside and the outside. We headed east and downhill towards the Medersa el-Attarine, a separate annex to the famous Kairaouine Mosque, which was founded by Abu Said in 1325. The Medersa had a number of teaching halls and was decorated in ...