The Djemaa el-Djedid Mosque and the Consulate Palace, Algiers, Algeria. Colonial French town planners cleared many Ottoman buildings when they redesigned the Algiers waterfront and laid out what is now the Place des Martyrs, but they left the Djemaa el-Djedid. Contrary to its name, the New Mosque, sometimes also called the P?cherie Mosque, was built in 1660 on the site of an earlier Koranic school and paid for by public subscription.