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{{Short description|Mosque in Nouakchott, Mauritania}}

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| coordinates_footnotes = | religious_affiliation = Islam| locale = | location = Nouakchott, Mauritania| deity = | rite = | sect = | tradition = | festival = | cercle = | sector = | administration = | consecration_year = | organisational_status = | functional_status = | heritage_designation = | ownership = | governing_body = | leadership = | bhattaraka = | patron = | religious_features_label = | religious_features = | architect = | architecture_type = mosque| architecture_style = | founded_by = | creator = | funded_by = | general_contractor = | established = | groundbreaking = | year_completed = | construction_cost = | date_demolished = | facade_direction = | capacity = | length = | width = | width_nave = | interior_area = | height_max = | dome_quantity = | dome_height_outer = | dome_height_inner = | dome_dia_outer = | dome_dia_inner = | minaret_quantity = | minaret_height = | spire_quantity = | spire_height = | site_area = | temple_quantity = | monument_quantity = | shrine_quantity = | inscriptions = | materials = | elevation_m = | elevation_footnotes = | nrhp = | designated = | added = | refnum = | footnotes = | website = }}Saudi Mosque () is a mosque in Nouakchott, Mauritania. It is located southwest of the Presidential Palace and immediately west of the Chamber of Commerce.{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mosqu%C3%A9+Saudique/@18.0904118,-15.9782174,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0xe964d7c090e9069:0x9bf77ee7dacc6259!8m2!3d18.0904118!4d-15.9756425!16s%2Fg%2F1tksk4h6?entry=ttu|title=Saudi Mosque|publisher=Google|accessdate=29 May 2023}}The mosque was built by Saudi money.NEWS, The Challenge of Radical Islam in Mauritania, Terrorism Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 19 by The Jamestown Foundation, 2016-06-16, 2005-10-07,www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=581, For several decades, Bouddah Ould Bousseyri had been imam of the Saudi Mosque, he was a close associate of the Mauritanian regime and a supporter of Sunni Islam and a very influential figure in the apolitical Islamist camp.WEB, L’islamisme en Mauritanie - Islamism in North Africa IV: The Islamist Challenge in Mauritania Threat or Scapegoat, International Crisis Group, 2005-05-11, 2016-06-16,www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/North%20Africa/Islamism%20in%20North%20Africa%20IV%20The%20Islamist%20Challenge%20in%20Mauritania%20Threat%20or%20Scapegoat%20French.pdf, The current imam, Ahmedou Ould Lemrabet, is a thinker of politicised salafism and a supporter of state authority.WEB, L’Arabie Saoudite suspend ses opérations avec Deddew, remplacé par un Erudit mauritanien, 2016-01-02, CRIDEM (Carrefour de la République Islamique DE Mauritanie),www.cridem.org/C_Info.php?article=679188, WEB, Purist Salafism in the Sahel and Its Jihadist Position, Al Jazeera Center for Studies, 2016-06-16, 2012-07-17,studies.aljazeera.net/en/reports/2012/07/20127177719710292.html,

See also

• Lists of mosques
• List of mosques in Africa
• List of mosques in Egypt

References

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