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Liberty Square and Dey Hassan Fountain

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The old town square of Birkhadem, with a marble fountain built by Dey Hassan Pasha in 1797. A mosque going back to the 17th century and, on one side, the church of 1843 stand around it.

A marble fountain stands on the town square of Birkhadem. Dey Hassan Pasha, the Ottoman ruler of Algiers, had it built. Its Arabic inscription gives the year 1212 of the Islamic calendar, which is 1797.

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