Gurgi Mosque

The Gurgi Mosque is a significant distinctive mosque, with its cheerful flower embellishments, particularly on the minbar. Aside from that, it loans intensely from Turkish mosques, despite the fact that it utilizes to a great extent Tunisian clay work. It was finished in 1833, worked by the order of the maritime chief Mustafa Gurgi. Gurgi is of Egyptian Arabic, signifying "From Georgia". Gurgi and his family's tombs are in the waiting room, in from the way to one side of the minbar. It has an octagonal minaret, which is unordinary for Tripoli. Despite the fact that the mosque is very little in estimate, yet at the same time has as much as 16 arches, 4 by 4 over the petition corridor bring down photograph demonstrates one of the vaults.