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Maqam Echahid: Exterior
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Maqam Echahid: Exterior · Maqam Echahid, Algiers
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Maqam Echahid: Exterior · The Maqam Echahid is a concrete monument commemorating the Algerian war for independence
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Maqam Echahid: Interior · Vue de l'intérieur de la gare de l'Agha
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Memorial · Late modernism

Maqam Echahid

Bashir Yellès, Marian Konieczny · Algiers, DZ · 1982

Key featuresThree tall concrete palm fronds meet at the top to shelter an eternal flame above a museum.

Architect
Bashir Yellès, Marian Konieczny
Place
Algiers, DZ
Year
1982
Typology
Memorial
Movement
Late modernism
Region
Africa
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