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This is a list of mosques in Africa.
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.[1]
Al Nejashi Mosque
Ethiopia
Negash
7th century
Founded in the 7th century in Negash, by tradition the burial site of several followers of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad who, during his lifetime, fled to the Aksumite Kingdom to escape persecution in Mecca.[2] It was recently renovated by TIKA, a Turkish cooperation organization.[3]
Djamaa el Djazaïr, also known as the Great Mosque of Algiers, is the second largest mosque in Africa and one of the largest in the world, and houses the world's largest minaret.[4][5]
Believed by some to be the first mosque on the African continent and the first mosque in the world built by the companions of Muhammad in the 7th century.[6]
^جولة الرئيس السيسي في مركز مصر الثقافي الإسلامي مع الشيخ أسامة الأزهري بالعاصمة الإدارية, retrieved 2023-04-09
^"The untold story of King Negash and the al Nejashi Mosque". 18 July 2019.
^"Negash Āmedīn Mesgīd". Madain Project. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
^"Bouteflika's mosque seen as monument to megalomania in Algeria". Arab News. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
^"Algeria builds giant mosque with world's tallest minaret". the Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
^ abReid, Richard J. (12 January 2012). "The Islamic Frontier in Eastern Africa". A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present. John Wiley and Sons. p. 106. ISBN 978-0470658987. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
^"سادات قريش .. أول مسجد في مصر وأفريقيا" ["Sadat Quraish"... the first mosque in Egypt and Africa]. Aledtihad. صحيفة الاتحاد. 7 June 2017. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021.
^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.
^Briggs, Phillip (2012). Somaliland: With Addis Ababa & Eastern Ethiopia. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 7. ISBN 978-1841623719.
^New Mosque Redraws Kampala's Skyline, 24. August 2006; Libyans open Old Kampala mosque Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, 8. Juni 2007
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