The Ketchaoua mosque takes up the body of a Christian cathedral. Its plan in the form of an elongated basilica also takes up the so-called Jesuit plan, with a wide central nave covered by a barrel vault and side aisles of lesser importance. Its transept is slightly projecting, and when crossing, an oval dome covers everything.
The façade takes up the principle of a Gothic church with a harmonic façade. Two towers of campaniles resembling a minaret from the Mamluk period in Egypt surround in perfect symmetry a central body taking up a forecourt and a gallery with three arches.
What is innovative in this plan is the oriental timbre blended with the neo-Romanesque-Byzantine style. This is therefore a purely eclectic style, which evokes various styles: Renaissance for the plan, Gothic for the composition of the façade, orientalising for the decorations of the towers of the campanile, and a Romano-Byzantine body.
Contrary to what is said in some works, it is indeed a church built as such on the traces of the old Ketchaoua mosque and its hammam (that of Hassan Pasha). Today, only the columns of the entrance square are original: all the rest is a French construction dating back to 1844-1878.
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