Near Chenini, the Mosque of the Seven Sleepers has a particularly Dr. Seuss-esque minaret. Stories of people who sleep for decades or centuries and wake up in a new world are universal, and the Seven Sleepers of Chenini are closely allied with the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus and other locations around the Mediterranean. They were Christians who were walled up in the Pagan era of Rome, and awoke later to find that Rome's official religion was Christian. Except, in the Muslim version, they slept through the whole Christian era and awoke after the Islamic conquest. They then converted to Islam and died. The sleepers of Chenini kept growing while they were asleep. The tombs are 15 feet long.