Great Mosque of Kairouan vs Zawiya of Sidi Sahib (Mosque of the Barber)
Two temples in Kairouan. Great Mosque of Kairouan has 3 tickets and tours to book; Zawiya of Sidi Sahib (Mosque of the Barber) has no online ticket listed. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
Entry to the mosque is covered by the combined ticket for the monuments of Kairouan, which is sold at the tourist office near the medina and at the mosque gate and also includes sites such as the Aghlabid Basins and the Mausoleum of Sidi Sahab. There is no online ticket for the mosque alone, and no need for one.
What is sold online are guided tours, mostly as day trips from the coastal resorts of Sousse, Monastir and Hammamet, about an hour to an hour and a half away by road. The most common combine Kairouan with the Roman amphitheatre of El Jem in a long day;
No ticket for the Zawiya of Sidi Sahib alone is sold online. Visitors enter with the combined pass for Kairouan's monuments, sold at the tourist information office near the Aghlabid Basins and at some of the sites themselves; it also covers the Great Mosque, the Aghlabid Basins and other religious buildings of the city, and is valid for the day. Prices are modest and paid in Tunisian dinars, and the custodians at the door expect to see the pass.
The zawiya stands just outside the walled medina, to the north-west, a short walk from the Aghlabid Basins and roughly 15 minutes on foot from the medina gates.
