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List of mosques in Africa

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This is a list of mosques in Africa.

Name Images Country City Year Remarks
Egypt Grand Mosque

(Masjid Misr al- Kabeer)

 Egypt New Administrative Capital 2023 Masjid Misr Al Kabeer, also known as the Egypt Grand Mosque is part of the newly opened Egypt Islamic Cultural Centre, is the largest mosque in Africa and third-largest in the middle east and is considered as one of the largest in the world.[1]
Al Nejashi Mosque
 Ethiopia Negash 7th century Founded in the 7th century in Negash, by tradition the burial site of several followers of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad who, during his lifetime, fled to the Aksumite Kingdom to escape persecution in Mecca.[2] It was recently renovated by TIKA, a Turkish cooperation organization.[3]
Djamaa el Djazaïr
 Algeria Algiers 2019 Djamaa el Djazaïr, also known as the Great Mosque of Algiers, is the second largest mosque in Africa and one of the largest in the world, and houses the world's largest minaret.[4][5]
Hamoudi Mosque
 Djibouti City of Djibouti 1906
Korijib Masjid  Djibouti Tadjoura 630–640 Possibly the oldest mosque in Djibouti.
Great Mosque of Asmara
 Eritrea Asmara 1938 The minaret resembles a fluted Roman column.
Masjid as-Sahabah
 Eritrea Massawa 613[6] Believed by some to be the first mosque on the African continent and the first mosque in the world built by the companions of Muhammad in the 7th century.[6]
Sadat Quraish Mosque
 Egypt Bilbeis 640 Claimed by some to be the first mosque in Egypt and in Africa.[7]
Ghana National Mosque  Ghana Accra 2021 The second largest mosque in West Africa
Medina Mosque  Ghana Accra 1959
Larabanga Mosque
 Ghana Larabanga 1421
Great Mosque of Djenné
 Mali Djenné 1300 The first mosque on the site was built in the 13th century, but the current structure dates from 1907.
Djinguereber Mosque
 Mali Timbuktu 1327
Sidi Yahya Mosque
 Mali Timbuktu 1440
Chinguetti Mosque
 Mauritania Chinguetti 13th-14th century
Saudi Mosque
 Mauritania Nouakchott ?
Jummah Mosque
 Mauritius Port Louis
List of mosques in Morocco  Morocco
Agadez Mosque
 Niger Agadez 16th century
Grand Mosque of Niamey  Niger Niamey
Yamma Mosque  Niger Tahoua 1962
Abuja National Mosque
 Nigeria Abuja 1984 National mosque
Great Mosque of Kano
 Nigeria Kano 15th century
Shitta-Bey Mosque
 Nigeria Lagos 1892
Juma'a mosque of Zaria  Nigeria Zaria 19th century
Dakar Grand Mosque  Senegal Dakar
Mosque of Divinity
Senegal Ouakam
Great Mosque of Saint-Louis [ar]  Senegal Saint-Louis 1847 [8]
Great Mosque of Touba  Senegal Touba Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal
Arba'a Rukun Mosque
 Somalia Mogadishu 1268/9 Mihrab contains an inscription commemorating the masjid's founder, Khusrau ibn Muhammed.
Fakr ad-Din Mosque
 Somalia Mogadishu 1269 Oldest mosque in Mogadishu. Built by the Sultanate of Mogadishu's first Sultan, Fakr ad-Din.
Mosque of Islamic Solidarity
 Somalia Mogadishu 1987 National mosque. Largest masjid in the Horn of Africa.
Masjid al-Qiblatayn
 Somalia Zeila Local tradition attributes it to the 7th century,[9] but no reliable dating has yet been established.[10][11]
Jama Mosque
 Somalia Hargeisa
Juma Masjid Mosque
 South Africa Durban 1881 Largest mosque in South Africa
Nizamiye Mosque  South Africa Midrand, Johannesburg 2012
Al-Nilin Mosque  Sudan Khartoum 1970s
Gaddafi Mosque
 Tanzania Dodoma 2010
Great Mosque of Kilwa
 Tanzania Kilwa 11th century and after Largest historical mosque in East Africa. Built and expanded in multiple phases over a long period. The earliest parts still standing are likely from the 11th century.[12]
Kizimkazi Mosque
 Tanzania Dimbani 1107
List of mosques in Tunisia  Tunisia
Uganda National Mosque
 Uganda Kampala 2006 Opened in June 2007[13]

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References

  1. ^ جولة الرئيس السيسي في مركز مصر الثقافي الإسلامي مع الشيخ أسامة الأزهري بالعاصمة الإدارية, retrieved 2023-04-09
  2. ^ "The untold story of King Negash and the al Nejashi Mosque". 18 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Negash Āmedīn Mesgīd". Madain Project. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Bouteflika's mosque seen as monument to megalomania in Algeria". Arab News. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  5. ^ "Algeria builds giant mosque with world's tallest minaret". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  6. ^ a b Reid, Richard J. (12 January 2012). "The Islamic Frontier in Eastern Africa". A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present. John Wiley and Sons. p. 106. ISBN 978-0470658987. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  7. ^ "سادات قريش .. أول مسجد في مصر وأفريقيا" ["Sadat Quraish"... the first mosque in Egypt and Africa]. Aledtihad. صحيفة الاتحاد. 7 June 2017. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021.
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  9. ^ Mire, Sada (2015-03-01). "Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire". African Archaeological Review. 32 (1): 129–130. doi:10.1007/s10437-015-9184-9. ISSN 1572-9842.
  10. ^ Insoll, Timothy (2020). "Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa". In Walker, Bethany; Insoll, Timothy; Fenwick, Corisande (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology. Oxford University Press. p. 430. ISBN 978-0-19-998788-7.
  11. ^ Fauvelle-Aymar, François-Xavier; Hirsch, Bertrand; Bernard, Régis; Champagne, Frédéric (2011). "Le port de Zeyla et son arrière-pays au Moyen Âge: Investigations archéologiques et retour aux sources écrites". In Fauvelle-Aymar, François-Xavier; Hirsch, Bertrand (eds.). Espaces musulmans de la Corne de l'Afrique au Moyen Âge (in French). Addis Ababa: Centre français des études éthiopiennes. pp. 27–74. ISBN 9782821882652.
  12. ^ Petersen, Andrew (1996). Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. Routledge. pp. 74, 151. ISBN 978-0-203-20387-3.
  13. ^ New Mosque Redraws Kampala's Skyline, 24. August 2006; Libyans open Old Kampala mosque Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, 8. Juni 2007
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