About
It is the second largest mosque in Algeria after the Great Mosque of Algiers. It was inaugurated on April 16, 2015, forty years after the start of its construction work in 1975. The mosque accommodates more than 25,000 worshipers and has a lecture hall with 460 seats, a large courtyard, two parking lots in the basement, and commercial shops and spaces. For exhibitions and other facilities. A public institution has been established to manage this edifice.
The idea of completing a mosque befitting in the city of Oran came in the early seventies of the last century, at the initiative of citizens, but the project was only registered in the year 1975, according to the Directorate of Religious Affairs. The Abdul Hamid bin Badis Mosque project, which was supposed to be embodied at the same time with the Prince Abdul Qadir Mosque in Constantine, faced many obstacles related to providing the necessary financial allocations for its financing, as well as the plot of land to embody the project according to the officials of the Directorate of Religious Affairs and Endowments. The project is four times to settle in the area of the Jamal Al -Din neighborhood, east of Oran, after a delay that lasted about 30 years.