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Zaouia Sidi Mahieddine ElGuitna

Stamp: religious cultural

Municipality: ElGuitna

Address: ElGuitna  Street, Dahou, the village of Sidi Mahieddine

Description of the site:

It is located in the municipality of ElGuitna, located on the right of Oued Al -Hamam, between the village of Bouhnafia and the village of Hacine, about 20 km from the city of Mascara, which is the Qadiriya Zaoui’s, which was founded by Sheikh Mustafa bin Al Mukhtar AlGherissi  during the Ottoman period around the year 1200, which is the birthplace of Emir Abdelkader.

This Zaouia was a destination for students of knowledge, as many of the leaders who were supporte Emir Abdelkader were supervised by his family, where they made it a shelter for the poor and the passers. Study Interpretation and the hadith of the Prophet, jurisprudence, Sharia, principles and grammar, mastered and sponsored by his father, and took care of its composition and education.

DARDARA Tree (place of his first allegiance)

Character: history

Cultural: Ghriss

Title: Ghriss

Description:

Located in Ghriss (18) km from the state of  Mascara, a great tree under which Ghriss ‘s people gathered for the shura. In this place, on 13 May 1284 (November 27, 1832), Mahieddine, the father of Emir Abdelkader of the tribes and their thrones, proposed to the tribes and their thrones, and they accepted his principality with pleasure and held his allegiance under the DARDARA tree.

Smala of Sidi Kada

Stamp: cultural

Municipality: Sidi kada

Title: Sidi kada

Description of the site:

It is the capital of the Emir Abdelkader administrative and military, and it consists of a residence surrounded by a wall, and this residence contains a bathroom.The Smala became mobile and was only discovered in 1847.

Al -Moubayaa Mosque (Ain Al Beida Mosque or Sidi Hassan Mosque)

Stamp: religious cultural

Municipal: Camp

Title: Downtown Camp City

Description of the site:

The date of its construction dates back to the twelfth century AH in the year 1190 AH by Muhammad ibn al -Hajj Hassayen bin Sari Al -Tlemceni, and it was ordered to construct this mosque, Khalifa Sultan Al -Sayyid Muhammad Al -Bay bin Othman. And since the mosque was based on the resistance, Emir Abdelkader chose it as a place that witnessed the second pledge known as the public, and it took place in Ramadan in the year 1248 AH corresponding to February 04, 1833.

Army Command headquarters and court headquarters

Stamp: cultural

Municipal: Mascara

Title: Mascara

Description of the site:

The sitse  are located in the city of the Mascara,build in the Ottoman era by Al-Bay “Muhammad bin Othman AlKabir” and used as headquarters for the West Balek before his transfer to the city of Oran, immediately after his pledge of allegiance Emir Abdelkader organize his young state began to create administrative institutions and Military and judicial, including the court and the leadership of the army.