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Did you Know? Algeria is the home to the famous Djamaa El Djazair mosque
Djamaa el Djazar, popularly known as Algiers' Great Mosque, is a mosque in Algiers, Algeria. It has the world's highest minaret and is the world's third-largest mosque after the Great Mosque of Mecca and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina in Saudi Arabia. The building of the mosque began in August 2012, after the China State Construction Engineering Corporation received a contract from the Algerian government worth one billion euros. The design was finished in April 2019 by German architects KSP Juergen Engel Architekten and engineers Krebs und Kiefer International. The mosque's construction was delayed due to budgetary problems caused by low oil prices. Its construction required the participation of over