Waqf of Lady El Alia - El Alia Cementery
The name of El Alia cemetery comes from the good lady “El Alia Hamza” originally from the tribe of Oulad Nail, born in 1886 in Sour El Ghozlane Wilaya of Bouira, to a father named Mohamed Bouteraa and his mother Fatma Chaabane. she married a man named Mohamed Kermich from Bousaada, he held a position teaching the French language in central Algiers.
She comes from a very rich family, she had her share of inheritance after the death of her father which she made profitable thanks to business and commerce which allowed her to own several lands in Djelfa, Sidi Aissa and Boussaâda in the wilaya of Msila as well as in the capital Algiers, she donated a school for teaching girls and welcoming orphans in Sidi Aissa and she personally took care of managing it.
In 1928, she performed the pilgrimage rites accompanied by her husband and her mother who had died and buried in the holy places, on her return to the country offering Muslims a land with an area of 78 hectares to bury the dead, this land is located in Oued Semar in the wilaya of Algiers, 15 km southeast of the Casbah of Algiers, and approximately 4 km from the Mediterranean, to be a landmark including more of 250,000 tombs, divided into squares, one of which is dedicated to the martyrs of the revolutionary war and one to Christians and soldiers of the Second World War as demanded by the settler.
The cemetery bears her first name “El Alia”, died in 1932 at the age of 46, she is buried in her native village in Sour el Ghouzlane, inscribed on her tomb “here rests the saint El Alia”.
She comes from a very rich family, she had her share of inheritance after the death of her father which she made profitable thanks to business and commerce which allowed her to own several lands in Djelfa, Sidi Aissa and Boussaâda in the wilaya of Msila as well as in the capital Algiers, she donated a school for teaching girls and welcoming orphans in Sidi Aissa and she personally took care of managing it.
In 1928, she performed the pilgrimage rites accompanied by her husband and her mother who had died and buried in the holy places, on her return to the country offering Muslims a land with an area of 78 hectares to bury the dead, this land is located in Oued Semar in the wilaya of Algiers, 15 km southeast of the Casbah of Algiers, and approximately 4 km from the Mediterranean, to be a landmark including more of 250,000 tombs, divided into squares, one of which is dedicated to the martyrs of the revolutionary war and one to Christians and soldiers of the Second World War as demanded by the settler.
The cemetery bears her first name “El Alia”, died in 1932 at the age of 46, she is buried in her native village in Sour el Ghouzlane, inscribed on her tomb “here rests the saint El Alia”.