Kechaoua Mosque in Algiers before it was converted into a cathedral (1794 AD - 1209 AH) / (1830 AD / 1832 AD - 1246 / 1247 AH)

Algeria owns a variety of real estate cultural properties between civil, religious and military. These properties great importance as the identity and the mirror that reflects the history of their affiliation, and among the cultural properties around which the topic of research revolves is the religious architecture that dates back to the Ottoman period, in particular the mosques.
The city of Algiers is full of many mosques (universal mosques) dating back to the Ottoman period, and the Kachaoua Mosque among them, which is among the cultural properties that witnessed various eras, as the latter had arisen in the Ottoman period, and was exploited during the period of French colonialism since the beginning of the occupation when it was converted To a cathedral, the French colonialism aimed at desecrating the Islamic identity through Christianization and obliterating everything that serves the Islamic religion, as it found the destruction of mosques to reach and exploit them to serve its purposes, so the Katchaoua Mosque in Algiers was among the buildings that witnessed the most horrific destruction, demolition, obliteration and changehold
After Algeria gained independence, it was repurposed as a mosque and to pray in it, but despite its restoration, its true form remained in the form of a cathedral that hid its square reality into a rectangular shape, and this reflects the damage caused by French colonialism in various fields, and the architectural field had a share of occupation and looting. The destruction of its identity and history, and religious architecture was among the buildings that took a share of the occupation, and thus the Kachaoua Mosque is an image that reflects the history of Algeria from the Ottoman period onwards, as the latter reflects the image of the Ottoman presence in the city, and reflects the image of the French occupation through Converting it into a cathedral, it also expresses the independence of Algeria and the stability of the political situation as soon as prayer returns to it as it was before in its beginning, and it also expresses the negative effects left by the French occupation after the occupation. damages in various fields.