The Qarawiyyin Mosque is the largest mosque in Africa, one of the world’s oldest universities and the congregational mosque of the quarter of al- Qarawiyyin since 10th century. The by madrasas surrounded mosque was an important intellectual center in the medieval Mediterrenean.

ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
iii. to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance

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