title: Ben Hmida Mosque
text: # Ben Hmida Mosque
  
  Ben Hmida Mosque (Arabic: جامع بن حميدة), is a Tunisian mosque located in the north of the medina of Tunis, in Bab Souika suburb.
  
  ## Location
  
  The mosque is located in 2 El Halib dead-end or the milk "dead-end", near Bab Lakouas, one of the medina's gates that disappeared.
  
  ## History
  
  According to the commemorative plaque at the entrance of the mosque, it was built in 1009, during the era of the zirid dynasty that ruled the Maghreb between 972 and 1014.
  
  