Great Mosque of Touba
The Great Mosque of Touba is in Touba, Senegal. It was founded by Amadou Bamba in 1887 and completed in 1963. t is the largest building in the city and one of the largest mosques in Africa, with a capacity of 7,000. The mosque is 100 metres long and 80 metres wide. It has five minarets, three large domes and eleven other domes, and two ablution chambers.
The immediate vicinity of the mosque houses the mausoleum of Amadou Bamba’s sons, the caliphs of the Mouride order. Other important institutions in the center of the holy city include a library boasting 160,000 volumes, the Caliph’s official audience hall, a sacred “Well of Mercy”, and a cemetery.
- Great Mosque of Touba
- Location: Touba
- Country: Senegal
- Capacity : 7000 Peoples
