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The Algerian Abdelaziz Bouteflika may have left, but his unfinished Great Mosque in Algiers, they say, symbolizes his 20 years of rule, as well as his megalomania.
At the end of Algiers Bay, it will be the third largest mosque in the world and the largest in Africa.
It will also house the tallest minaret in the world, at 265 meters altitude.
The initial cost of the project amounted to 1.2 billion euros, but it has already exceeded the cost and the construction, launched by a Chinese company in 2012, is already more than three years late.
Bouteflika financed this ambitious project by exploiting the vast oil wealth of the country.
But as an Algerian pointed out to the French news agency AFP, "there are mosques every 500 meters in this country, we did not need that".
Indded, Algeria has more than 20,000 mosques.
Mosques on hospitals
The National Agency for Health Facilities, which has 40 million inhabitants, said in 2015 that Algerian university hospitals go back to the colonial period.
Most are even centenarians.
Throughout Bouteflika's power, many health workers have regularly denounced the lack of medical staff and equipment in public hospitals, pointing out that the money spent regularly for mosques would have been better used to improve health services.
Currently, on social networks, many are asking that this new mosque become the largest hospital in Algeria.
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