The basilica was inaugurated in 1872, after fourteen years of construction. Its architect, Jean Eugène Fromageau, who had been appointed the chief architect for ecclesiastical buildings in French Algeria in 1859, employed a Neo-Byzantine style that was in vogue for church architecture in France at that time.

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"Our Lady of Africa, pray for us and for the Muslims"

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..., aprendi a gostar de ter saudade. Recordo os versos do poeta que diziam "eu vim ao mundo para ter saudade". Como se apenas pela ausência eu me povoasse interiormente.

Mia o Couto na pag. 144 do Jesusalém
(Caminho)

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was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi, political and military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion in the mid-19th century, for which he is seen by the Algerians as a national hero.
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“…The nobility of his character won him the admiration of the world… He was one of the few great men of the century.”
in The New York Times (1883)

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“Don’t ask about a man’s genealogy, but about his character, his life and his deeds.
Drink the water.... If it is pure, so is the source.”

Emir Abd El-Kader

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