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The Great Mosque of Touba (Arabic: الجامع الكبير في توبا, French: Grande Mosquée de Touba) is a mosque in Touba, Senegal. It was founded by Ahmad Bamba in 1887 and completed in 1963. Bamba died in 1927 and was interred inside the mosque. [1] Since his death the mosque has been controlled by his family.
Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacke (Arabic: سيج أحمدو بامبا مباك, 1853–1927) [1] also known to followers as the Servant of the Messenger (Arabic: خادِم الرسول, romanized: Khādim al-Rasūl) and Serigne Touba or "Sheikh of Touba", was a Sufi saint and religious leader in Senegal and the founder of the large Mouride Brotherhood (the Muridiyya).
Touba (Hassaniya Arabic: توبا, 'Felicity'; Wolof: Tuubaa) is a city in central Senegal, part of Diourbel Region and Mbacké district. With a population of 1,120,824 [ 1 ] in 2023, it is the second most populated Senegalese city after Dakar .
The Grand Magal of Touba is the annual religious pilgrimage of the Senegalese Mouride Brotherhood, one of the four Islamic Sufi orders of Senegal. On the 18th of Safar , the second month of the Islamic calendar , pilgrims gather in the holy Mouride city of Touba to celebrate the life and teachings of Amadou Bamba , the founder of the brotherhood.
Shaikh Amadou Bamba was buried in 1927 at the Great Mosque in Touba, the holy city of Mouridism and the heart of the Mouride movement. After his death Bamba has been succeeded by his descendants as hereditary leaders of the brotherhood. The caliph (leader) of the Mouride brotherhood is known as the Grand Marabout and has his
At Al-Touba, the dome that used to rise above the multi-storey mosque was completely gone. The only part of it still recognisable was its circular base, tilted sideways on the collapsed roof where ...
In 1925, the French banned construction of the Touba Mosque. Sheikh Ibrahima Fall enclosed the area of the mosque with timbers Fall carried from Ndjarèem to Touba. In 1927, at the death of Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke, Sheikh Ibrahima Fall performed among the first obeisance to the Shaikh's son, Serigne Moustapha Mbacké.
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