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It was Sri Lankan people who, in the 20th century, established the Buddhist temple in Tanzania, after they came to work in Dar es Salaam around 1915. They worked together and formed the “Singhalese Buddhist Association” and then asked for a piece of land from the government of Tanzania. They were bought two acres land in the city center.
Tanzania, [c] officially the United Republic of Tanzania, [d] is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
The Dar es Salaam Central Business District is the largest in Tanzania and comprises the Kisutu, Kivukoni, Upanga and Kariakoo areas. [citation needed] The downtown area is located in the Ilala district. Kivukoni is home to the Tanzania Central Bank, The Bank of Tanzania, the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange and the city's important Magogoni fish ...
Dar Centre for Architectural Heritage (DARCH!) is a think tank and exhibition space focused on architecture, planning and design in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [1] It is located in Kisutu Ward on Sokoine Drive, inside the historic Old Boma building, being the oldest remaining building in Dar es Salaam [ 2 ]
The Tanzania National Archives (est. 1962) are the national archives of Tanzania.The headquarters are located in Dar es Salaam on Vijibweni Street in Upanga. They contain more than 8,000 files dating back to German East Africa, files from British-administered Tanganyika Territory, and further records since the country's independence.
One of the deadly 1998 U.S. embassy bombings occurred in Dar Es Salaam; the other was in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2004, the undersea earthquake on the other side of the Indian Ocean caused tsunamis along Tanzania's coastline in which 11 people were killed. An oil tanker also temporarily ran aground in the Dar Es Salaam harbour, damaging an oil pipeline.
Language families of Tanzania. Tanzania is a multilingual country. There are many languages spoken in the country, none of which is spoken natively by a majority or a large plurality of the population. Swahili and English, the latter being inherited from colonial rule (see Tanganyika Territory), are widely spoken as lingua francas.
Dar es Salaam served as Tanganyika's first capital when it gained its independence in 1961, and it kept that role when Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to form Tanzania in 1964. Although Dodoma in Tanzania's interior was designated as the country's new capital in 1973, the majority of the country's administrative offices are still located in Dar ...