List of mosques in Senegal

This is a list of mosques in Senegal.

List

Name Image Location Year (CE) Group Notes
Great Mosque of Saint-Louis Saint-Louis 1847 [1]
Great Mosque of Touba Touba 1963 Su Mouride Brotherhood; affiliated with Sufism. Community was established in 1887.[2]
Grand Mosque of Dakar Dakar 1964 Su [3]
Mosque of Divinity Ouakam 1997 Su Twin minarets are 45 m (148 ft) tall[4]
Massalikoul Djinane Mosque Dakar 2019 The largest mosque in West Africa, with a combined capacity of 30,000 worshipers inside the prayer hall and the sahn.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Denise Bouche (1974). "L'école française et les musulmans au Sénégal de 1850 à 1920". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer (in French). 61 (223): 218–235. doi:10.3406/outre.1974.1756 – via Persee.fr.
  2. ^ "The Mourides: Inside the grand mosque in Touba, Senegal". BBC News. August 4, 2011. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  3. ^ "Grande Mosquée of Dakar, Senegal". lonelyplanet.
  4. ^ "Mosque of the Divinity". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  5. ^ Laplace, Manon (October 3, 2019). "West Africa's largest and grandest mosque opens in Dakar". The Africa Report. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
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