Lalla Abla Mosque

The Lalla Abla Mosque (Arabic: مسجد للا عبلة), also known as Port Mosque, is a mosque in Tangier, Morocco, completed in 2017 and dedicated by King Mohammed VI in July 2018. It replaced a smaller mosque on a nearby location, also known as the Port Mosque.^[1]

Lalla Abla Mosque
مسجد للا عبلة
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Location
Municipality	Tangier
Country	Morocco
Shown within Morocco
Geographic coordinates	35°47′22″N 5°48′25″W
Architecture
Type	mosque
Date established	2017
Specifications
Capacity	1,900 worshippers
Site area	5,712 m2

The previous Port Mosque in 2013 before demolition

It is named after Mohammed VI's grandmother Lalla Abla bint Tahar, echoing the dedication 35 years earlier of Tangier's Mohammed V Mosque to Lalla Abla's husband and Mohammed VI's grandfather.^[2]

The mosque occupies a 5,712 square meters land lot, in a prominent location on Tangier's fishing port that was inaugurated by Mohammed VI a few weeks earlier in June 2018.^[3] It can host over 1,900 worshippers, in two separate prayer halls for men and women.^[4]

See also

• Mohammed V Mosque, Tangier
• Mausoleum of Mohammed V
• List of mosques in Morocco