. Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia . on self-support, and it is hoped that friends in England will help tofinish and maintain the only British establishment that existsin Tunis. The St. Georges Cemetery, which has belonged to theBritish community since 1635, is a spot of great historicalinterest, as in it are interred the remains of several consuls,both British and American. John Howard Payne, the authorof Home, Sweet Home, died at Tunis in 1852, and theUnited States Government has erected a monument to hismemory in the St. Georges Cemetery. There is also amemorial window in the E
. Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia . on self-support, and it is hoped that friends in England will help tofinish and maintain the only British establishment that existsin Tunis. The St. Georges Cemetery, which has belonged to theBritish community since 1635, is a spot of great historicalinterest, as in it are interred the remains of several consuls,both British and American. John Howard Payne, the authorof Home, Sweet Home, died at Tunis in 1852, and theUnited States Government has erected a monument to hismemory in the St. Georges Cemetery. There is also amemorial window in the English Church. St. Georges Cemetery, being within the town, is now closedto all interments. A Protestant municipal cemetery has beenestablished about a mile out of town. Mosques. As already mentioned, Christians are neverallowed to enter any of the mosques in Tunisia except at the 344 ALGERIA AND TUNISIA. holy city of Kairouan (see p. 368). There are fifty mosques inTunis, nine of which have schools attached to them. Theprincipal mosques are the. Cafe Maurb. Grande Mosquee Ez-Zitouna, mosque of the OliveTree, founded in \.i>. 698. In it a number of youths receivea religious education. The mosque is reached by a flight of TIN is. 345 steps, Leading to seven open courts, with porticoes .sustained bymarble columns. The exterior and central court can be seenwhen visiting the bazaars near the Souk des Parfums. Djama El Casbah (the mosque of the Oasbah), built1230-1:240. It was formerly inside the walls of the Casbah,but since the French occupation the entrance is now in theroad outside. Djama Sidi Mahrez, in the Bab es Souika quarter, built in the seventeenth century by a French architect, a prisoner ofthe corsairs. The large central dome is surrounded by severalsmaller cupolas, presenting a faint resemblance to the mosque ofSte. Sophia, at Constantinople. Djama-Sahab-Taba (mosque of the master of the prison),Place tialfaouine, one of the richest and most highlydecorated mosques
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