{{Infobox settlement |official_name = Bab El Oued |native_name = {{lang|ar|باب الواد}} |nickname = |settlement_type = Commune |motto = |image_skyline = Bab El Oued Algiers 2008.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = Bab El Oued |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_map = DZ-1605.svg |mapsize = |map_caption = Location of Bab El Oued in the Algiers Province |pushpin_map = Algeria |pushpin_label_position = bottom |pushpin_mapsize = |pushpin_map_caption = Location of Bab El Oued in the Algeria |coordinates = {{coord|36|47|26.53|N|3|2|59.03|E|type:city_region:DZ|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Algeria}} |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Algiers Province |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 = Bab El Oued District |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = |government_footnotes = |government_type = Municipality |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Athmane Sahbane |established_title = APC |established_date = 2012-2017 |area_magnitude = |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = 11,1 |area_land_km2 = |population_as_of = 2014{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total = 214,900 |population_density_km2 = 57,700 |timezone = CET |utc_offset = +1 |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = |iso_code = CP |postal_code_type = Postal code |postal_code = 16007 |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Bab El Oued''' is a neighbourhood in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, along the coast north of the city centre. As of 2008, the population of the commune of Bab El Oued was 64,732.<ref name=cityde>{{cite web|url = http://www.citypopulation.de/php/algeria-admin.php?adm1id=16|title = El Djazaïr (Province)|website = citypopulation.de|access-date = 21 December 2014|archive-date = 20 June 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170620194447/http://www.citypopulation.de/php/algeria-admin.php?adm1id=16|url-status = live}}</ref>
==History==
During the existence of French Algeria, Bab El Oued was established as the main neighbourhood of poor ''pied-noirs'', including many poor fishermen. Towards the end of the Algerian War, the neighbourhood became the stronghold of the Organisation armée secrète, until OAS attacks on the French Army led them to assault and purge the neighbourhood, during the siege of Bab el Oued in March 1962. Soon after, Algeria became independent, and the ''pied noir'' population fled the country. The neighbourhood was then settled by Muslim Algerians. The neighbourhood again gained notoriety during the leadup to the Algerian Civil War (which broke out in 1991) as a stronghold of the Islamic Salvation Front, or FIS. Its population in 1998 was 102,200.<ref>[http://www.populstat.info/Africa/algeriat.htm populstat] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175036/http://www.populstat.info/Africa/algeriat.htm |date=2016-03-03 }}</ref>
== Shrine == Located beyond the Bab al-Oued, on a hillside, is the tomb of 'Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi (1383-1470), a revered scholar and mystic known as the patron saint of Algiers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bloom |first=Jonathan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1121602964 |title=Architecture of the Islamic west: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800 |last2=Warner |first2=Nicholas |date=2020 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-21870-1 |location=New Haven |pages=241 |oclc=on1121602964 |access-date=2024-05-22 |archive-date=2024-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522103828/https://search.worldcat.org/title/on1121602964 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Notable people== * Sofia Boutella * Dida Diafat * Djamel Keddou * Baya Rahouli * Abdul Abdullah Yahia * Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi is buried here * Souad Massi * Mohamed Tadjadit
<gallery class="center"> File:Bab el Oued 114.jpg| File:Bab El Oued Alger.jpg| </gallery>
==References== {{Portal|Algeria}} {{Reflist}}
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Category:Communes of Algiers Province Category:Neighbourhoods in Algeria