{"id":200614,"date":"2025-06-21T07:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-djerba-sacred-geometry-spirituality-carved-in-lime\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:47:54","slug":"tunisia-djerba-sacred-geometry-spirituality-carved-in-lime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-djerba-sacred-geometry-spirituality-carved-in-lime\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Djerba, Sacred Geometry &#8211; Spirituality Carved in Lime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Djerba \u2014 Under a sky bathed in bright light, the island of Djerba reveals a unique architectural heritage: its mosques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Scattered in belts between palm groves, dunes and villages with narrow streets, these centuries-old houses of worship blend into the landscape like mirages of white lime and clean lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The island, though modest in size, is home to more than 400 mosques, an impressive number, said member of &#8216;the Association for the Safeguarding of the Island of Djerba,&#8217; Raoudha Hamzi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">These&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200152.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djerba \u2014 Under a sky bathed in bright light, the island of Djerba reveals a unique architectural heritage: its mosques. Scattered in belts between palm groves, dunes and villages with narrow streets, these centuries-old houses of worship blend into the landscape like mirages of white lime and clean lines. The island, though modest in size, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,51689,1677,51687,51690,257,13498,254,51688,4703,653],"class_list":["post-200614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-carved","tag-djerba","tag-geometry","tag-lime","tag-news","tag-sacred","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spirituality","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}