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This paper focuses on the synthesis of nanocomposite materials TiO 2 /SAPO-34 using the sol-gel method, which involves preparing a mixture between as-synthesized or calcined SAPO-34 zeolite and TiO 2 gel under hydrothermal crystallization and then calcined at 400 °C for the formation of TiO 2 anatase phase. The structural and textural features of the obtained materials were determined by various physico-chemical techniques such as thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), Nitrogen sorption at 77 K, energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) and ultravioletvisible (UV-vis). The DRX results showed that calcination at 400 °C of the mixture between calcined SAPO-34 and TiO 2 gel led to the collapse of the original framework of zeolite but forms the anatase TiO 2 in a nano-spherical morphology, but the use of as-synthesized SAPO-34 supports provides a mixture phase between SAPO-34 and TiO 2 anatase after calcination. The photocatalytic properties of SAPO-34/TiO 2 andTiO 2 type materials were tested for the removal of methylene blue (MB) dye. The MB degradation proved to be increasing as a function of contact time, catalyst mass and the initial concentration of MB.