Hassan Tower is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. It was commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third caliph of the Almohad caliphate, towards the end of the 12th century. The tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world, and the mosque, if completed, would have been the largest in the western Muslim world. When al-Mansur died in 1199, construction of the mosque stopped. The minaret remained at a height of 44 metres. The rest of the mosque also remained incomplete, with only the beginnings of several walls and 348 columns built. Together with the remains of the mosque and the modern mausoleum of Mohammed V, the tower forms an important historical and tourist complex in Rabat.
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