VirtualGlobetrotting: Algeria: Algiers

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"Batna" cargo grounded (14 november 2004)
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
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An Old Abandoned Stadium
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
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I'm fairly certain that in better years this was a stadium of moderate size. It appears to have been built alongside very old neighborhoods that still exist to the north counter-clockwise around to the southwest, and newer industrial areas have since been built around the east and south. I wonder how long this has been sitting unused for sport. It might take a map that's 30 or 40 years old to get the name of what this was.

Stade 5 Juillet 1962
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By: AKpilotEMT.
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Home pitch of MC Alger (Mouloudia Club d'Alger -- www.mouloudia.org)
"Stade 5 Juillet 1962, also known as El Djezair Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Algiers, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and it also has an athletics track. The stadium holds 66,000. It was built in 1976." (wikipedia)

Big Blue Boat (& 3 small tugs) in port d'Alger
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
Don't know if that's a cruise-type ship or other?

Maquam E'chahid, ou Monument des Martyres
This concrete memorial to the struggle for Algerian independence, having been designed according to a somewhat brutalist aesthetic, isn't exactly pleasing to the eye. Yet it's undeniably striking - you won't fail to miss its imposing bulk from wherever you are in Algiers. The monument was opened in 1982, on the 20th anniversary of independence, and it presides over an area containing the best views out over the city." (lonelyplanet.com)

Stade Mohamed Benhaddad

4 in Drydock, port d'Alger

Algerian freeway tunnel North entrance
I'm usually good at finding info on the internet but for this tunnel I couldn't find anything at all. No name, no map showing the freeway or the hill it goes under, nothing. Check out the funky shaped building on top. Wonder what that is! What an interesting city!
P.S. the freeway *might* be the N1

Algerian Luxury
If this is someone's home, and it probably is, it is certainly not typical of typical Algerian living!

Algiers athletics complex
Adjacent to the National Stadium (Stade 5 Juillet 1962) is this sports complex. What the name of this place is I have no clue. I do believe it is the Algerian national sports training center. There appears to be one lighted football & track stadium, swimming & diving stadium, squash(?) courts and stadium, clay court tennis stadium, and a flying saucer looking, possibly indoor arena of some sort. Attached immediately to the northeast is two more football pitches, both dirt and lighted, as well as several courts, all lighted, for basketball and/or tennis and/or other game that's not widely played in America? (very few markings to tell exactly what they're all for.) In any case, this is a cool looking place, except for the lack of baseball/softball fields, you might think you were in America!

Agha Harbour, port d'Alger

Stade Ould Moussa Saïda de Hydra
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

2007-04-11 - Palais du gouvernement bombing
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
The blast occurred shortly before noon local time (1000 GMT) near the government offices of Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem, killing at least 12 and wounding 118 others, state news agency APS reported.

Algerian Ministry of Finance (Ministère des Finances)

Stade Zioui
Home pitch of Nasr Athlétique d'Hussein-Dey

Railyard Turntable & Roundhouse

Houari Boumedienne Airport

Baraki Stadium
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Hippodrome du Caroubier

Stade 20 Août 1955
Home pitch of Chabab Riadhi de (CR) Belouizdad

Probably the Best Dirt Football Pitch in Algiers
Compared to the dozens of other dirt surface football pitches in Algiers, this is probably the very best one there is. An easy comparison can be made by scanning just a 1/2 mile to the west.

Boats in Algiers Harbour
More colourful than U.S. marinas! You can see a boatramp angling down just to the north of the boats, with a lane marked by buoys in the water.

Algerian freeway tunnel Southwest entrance
I'm usually good at finding info on the internet but for this tunnel I couldn't find anything at all. No name, no map showing the freeway or the hill it goes under, nothing. Check out the funky shaped building on top. Wonder what that is! What an interesting city!
P.S. the freeway *might* be the N1 but I could be way wrong.

Alger Amirauté Light
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
About 1830 (station established before 1700). Inactive since the 1920s or 1930s. 16 m (52 ft) 12-sided cylindrical tower with lantern and gallery rising from a 12-sided building. Lighthouse painted white, lantern black. Faulx-Briole's photo appears at right, Malek Ressam has a more distant photo, Mohamed Bisker has a 2009 photo, and Google has a satellite view. The Peñon is a 16th century fortress at the center of the Amirauté (Admiralty), a complex of historic buildings on what was originally several small islands just off the coast. (In Arabic, this bastion was called simply El Djazaïr (the islands); "Alger" and "Algeria" are corruptions of this Arabic name.) Located near the foot of the Jetée du Nord, on a small island now connected to the mainland by a causeway.

Running Track and ?
Quite possibly this is attached to a school (?) immediately to the north. The space within the running track is smaller than a football pitch and clearly divided into 4 sections. What exactly is played here?

Bardo National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Embassy of Canada, Algiers
nico (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nico.

Very Nice Football Pitch
Not much seating and it appears to be tucked into a small box canyon, kind of secluded, but it looks like a very nice neighborhood football pitch.

Railyard in Algiers

Ain Naadja Military Hospital Helipad
ICAO: DZ-0008

Wastewater Treatment Plant in Algiers

Football Match on a Dirt Pitch

Fancy French Living Design
This complex probably has a name but since good Algerian maps don't really exist on the internet, it'll take a local or a lot of work to find out exactly what the name is. In any case, looks like the French were at it again here south of downtown Algiers

Great Mosque of Algiers
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The Great Mosque of Algiers (Arabic: الجامع الكبير‎, Jemaa Kebir) or “Djama’a al-Kebir” (meaning Great Mosque) is a mosque in Algiers, Algeria, located very close to Algiers Harbor. An inscription on the minbar منبر) or the pulpit testifies to fact that the mosque was built in 1097. It is also known by several other names such as Grand Mosque d'Alger, Djamaa al-Kebir, El Kebir Mosque and Jami Masjid. It is one of the few remaining examples of Almoravid architecture. It is the oldest mosque in Algiers and is said to be the oldest mosque in Algeria after Sidi Okba Mosque. It was built under sultan Ali ibn Yusuf. Its minaret dates from 1332 (1324 in some sources) and was built by the Ziyyanid sultan of Tlemcen. The gallery at the outside of the mosque was built in 1840. Its construction was a consequence of a complete reconstruction of the street by the French.

Algiers Golf Club
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

University of Algiers
Xeba73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Xeba73.
The University of Algiers Benyoucef Benkhedda, founded in 1909 as the country's first university. About 100,000 students. 7 faculties.

Neighborhood Hoops and ?
Obviously a basketball court to the left but what is to the right?

Ketchaoua Mosque
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The Ketchaoua Mosque (Arabic: جامع كتشاوة‎, Djamaa Ketchaoua) is a mosque in Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is located at the foot of the Casbah, which was built during the Ottoman rule in the 17th century, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The mosque that stands on the first of the Casbah’s many steep stairways, was logistically and symbolically the cynosure of the pre-colonial city of Algiers. The mosque is noted for its unique fusion of Moorish and Byzantine architecture.

Just some Algerian Apartments
This complex probably has a name. Anyone Algerian reading this and know? In the immediate vicinity there are many more similar buildings and a bunch of towers all similar to each other ... I just thought it looked kind of interesting.

Neighborhood Basketball Court
This looks like a small park in Algiers. One basketball court but I don't know what the court is to the north of that. Also, this could be connected in some way to the lighted football pitch to the south.

Algerian Military Intelligence or DRS
nico (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nico.

Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.

El-RAHMA Mosque
nico (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: nico.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdur_Rahman

U.S. Embassy in Algiers
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.

Stade Omar Hammadi
Home pitch of Paradou AC (www.paradouac.com) & USM Alger

Mosquée ENNOUR Les Tagarins

Air Algérie Logo

Embassy of Germany in Algiers, Algeria
fin (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: fin.

World's tallest minaret under construction
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
At the Great Mosque of Algiers. 886 feet high upon completion.

Interesting Roundabout
At the edge of the city, drivers from the north and northeast can fan out in three directions heading away from the Mediterranean coast on into more southern regions of the country.

Track of Some Sort
No idea what kind of track this is/was. Perhaps a French relic? Lack of good maps of the Algiers area does give much hope of finding out exactly the name and use of this.

Neighborhood Football Pitch
Here's another neighborhood dirt football pitch. It's lighted so I'm wondering if it's part of a park, possibly connected to what's immediately to the north.

Embassy of France, Algiers

Embassy of Greece, Algiers

Fares Mosque

Embassy of Malaysia, Algiers

Ibn Baddis Mosque
Bio:
http://www.answers.com/topic/abd-al-hamid-ben-badis

Ibn Badis Mosque

Tours Mohammedia
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Algerian Airforce IL-76TD Crash Site
KRL (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: KRL.
The aircraft had just departed the airport on a flight to Tindouf.
Witnesses reported seeing flames coming from the wing and crashed 3 miles southwest of the airport.
Attached links with photos and map.
257 fatal.

Hôpital militaire d'Aïn Naâdja
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.

Fokker F27
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.

Chéraga Airport
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.
ICAO: DAAX

Aircraft static display

Murphy Rebel 912