Larabanga Mosque
Larabanga, Ghana
Savannah Region, Ghana
CHURCH
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EST. 1421
EST. 1421
Early 1400s
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Larabanga Mosque.
The mosque preserves its original mud-brick and timber Sudano-Sahelian structure, with rendered walls, pyramidal buttresses, and projecting wooden struts, making it one of the oldest surviving mosques of this type in West Africa. It is maintained by the local Muslim community rather than by any national heritage body. The mosque remains an active place of worship, and non-Muslim visitors may view the exterior and enter only with permission.
About Larabanga Mosque
The Larabanga Mosque was built of mud brick and timber in the Sudano-Sahelian style, with local tradition, not documented history, dating it to the early fifteenth century. It served the Muslim community of this Dyula trading settlement on trans-Saharan trade routes. It was among the earliest mosques linked to the spread of Islam in this part of West Africa.
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