Larabanga Mosque

Tour Descritption

Larabanga Mosque is a historic mosque built in the Sudanese architectural style in the village of Larabanga, Ghana. It is the oldest mosque in the country and one of the oldest in West Africa, and has been referred to as the "Mecca of West Africa". The mosque was founded in 1421 by an Islamic trader named Ayuba, who had a dream instructing him to build a mosque near a "Mystic Stone". The mosque has undergone several restorations, with the help of the World Monuments Fund, which listed it as one of the 100 Most Endangered Sites. The mosque has an old Quran, believed by the locals to have been given as a gift from heaven in 1650 to the Imam at the time. The mosque is made of mud and reeds, and has two tall towers in pyramidal shape, one for the mihrab and the other as a minaret. The mosque is also surrounded by a large baobab tree, which marks the grave of Ayuba