title: Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments (Algeria)
text: # Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments (Algeria)
  
  The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Wakfs (Arabic: وزارة الشؤون الدينية والأوقاف, French: Ministère des affaires religieuses et des wakfs) is a ministry of Algeria. Its head office is in Hydra, Algiers.
  
  ## Ministers
  
  Several ministers have succeeded in this ministerial post in successive Algerian governments [ar]:
  
  Chronology of ministers of religious affairs and endowments in Algeria :
  
  | N° | Minister | From | To |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 01 | Ahmed Tewfik El Madani | September 27, 1962 | December 2, 1964 |
  | 02 | Tedjini Haddam [ar] | December 2, 1964 | July 10, 1965 |
  | 03 | Larbi Saadouni [ar] | July 10, 1965 | June 1, 1970 |
  | 04 | Mouloud Kacem Naît Belkacem | June 1, 1970 | March 8, 1979 |
  | 05 | Boualem Baki [ar] | March 8, 1979 | July 15, 1980 |
  | 06 | Abderrahmane Chibane [ar] | July 15, 1980 | February 18, 1986 |
  | 07 | Boualem Baki [ar] | February 18, 1986 | September 9, 1989 |
  | 08 | Saïd Chibane | September 9, 1989 | June 4, 1991 |
  | 09 | M'hamed Benredouane | June 18, 1991 | February 22, 1992 |
  | 10 | Sassi Lamouri | February 22, 1992 | August 21, 1993 |
  | 11 | Abdelhafid Amokrane [ar] | August 21, 1993 | April 11, 1994 |
  | 12 | Sassi Lamouri | April 15, 1994 | December 31, 1995 |
  | 13 | Ahmed Merani [fr] | December 31, 1995 | June 10, 1997 |
  | 14 | Bouabdellah Ghlamallah [ar] | June 24, 1997 | April 29, 2014 |
  | 15 | Mohamed Aïssa [ar] | April 29, 2014 | April 1, 2019 |
  | 16 | Youcef Belmehdi | April 1, 2019 | Nowadays |
  