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The Dakar Grand Mosque (Arabic: المسجد الكبير في داكار, French: Grande Mosquée de Dakar) is one of the most important religious buildings in Dakar, Senegal. It is situated on Allée Pape Gueye Fall .
The mosque spans over an area of 10,000 m 2, making it the largest mosque in West Africa.It consists of five minarets with a height of 80 meters, 4 wooden domes, all in which can accommodate up to 10,000 worshipers inside the building and additional 20,000 at its square.
This mosque served for burial prayers for Ottoman diplomats, North African military personnel, and Turkish and Arab students. It fell into disrepair when France and the Ottoman Empire went to war in 1914. [155] Grand Mosque of Paris: Paris France: 1926 The mosque was built in the Moroccan style and honored Muslim French veterans of World War I ...
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.
Name Image Capacity Area (m 2) City Country Year of first building Denomination Masjid al-Haram: 4,000,000 [1]: 356,000 [2]: Mecca Saudi Arabia Pre-622 – Prophet's Mosque
A mosque (/ m ɒ s k / MOSK), also called a masjid (/ ˈ m æ s dʒ ɪ d, ˈ m ʌ s-/ MASS-jid, MUSS-), [note 1] is a place of worship for Muslims. [1] The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Islamic prayers are performed, such as an outdoor courtyard.
Since the foundation of their community, the monks of Abbaye de Keur Moussa have supported the local Muslim population, providing health care and distributing food to the needy. A medical dispensary and a primary school founded by the monks are now operated by groups of religious sisters and lay people , respectively.
The Layene brotherhood is the smallest of the Muslim brotherhoods of Senegal [4] and likely numbers between seventy and one-hundred thousand members. [ 5 ] The community leader is known as the Khalif Générale, who also has broad authority over temporal matters in the Layene quarter of the neighborhood of Yoff , Senegal.