Gamal Abdel Nasser Mosque (Tripoli)

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The Gamal Abdel Nasser Mosque on Algeria Square ( Maidan al-Dschazāʾir ) in Tripoli was built as a Catholic cathedral with the name Santa Maria degli Angeli in Libya during the Italian colonial period in Libya . The neo-Romanesque church building, built from 1923 to 1928 according to plans by Saffo Panteri , was converted into a mosque named after Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 as a testimony to Italian colonialism by the Libyan revolutionary regime , and the campanile turned into a minaret .

  • Appearance as a mosque, 2006

  • around 1960

Coordinates: 32 ° 53 '26.2 "  N , 13 ° 11' 9.7"  E