Great Mosque Kairouan Building photo copyrighted by: Brian McMorrow This mosque is composed of two parts, the court and the prayer space.
The mihrab marking the direction of Mecca is faced with fine faience tiles, given
a metallic sheen by the addition of metal oxides to the glaze - a process not known in
the west when the tiles were imported from Baghdad in 862.
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