A notarial document dates the original mosque to 1611 and 1612, with an inscription recording a rebuilding in 1793 and 1794. The infobox credits Hayreddin Barbarossa, but the article gives no source tying him to that date. Muslims were evicted in December 1831, and the building was consecrated as the Cathedral of Saint Philippe on December 25, 1832.
The old structure was demolished and a new cathedral built between 1845 and 1860, although the infobox gives 1844 for the demolition. The article names no architect. It was rededicated as a mosque in 1962. The article describes the style as Moorish and Byzantine, in stone and marble.
Two octagonal minarets flank the entrance, reached by 23 steps. Damaged by the 2003 earthquake, it was restored by Turkey's TIKA and reopened in April 2018. It is part of the UNESCO Casbah of Algiers.
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