A small mud-and-stick mosque in the Sudanese style, whitewashed, buttressed, with wooden beams sticking out of the walls like pins — one of the oldest mosques in West Africa, held locally to date from the early fifteenth century.
Larabanga, near Mole National Park, Savannah Region
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Larabanga and the Mystic Mosque
A small mud-and-stick mosque in the Sudanese style, whitewashed, buttressed, with wooden beams sticking out of the walls like pins — one of the oldest mosques in West Africa, held locally to date from the early fifteenth century.
The tradition says a trader named Ayuba, travelling through, stopped to pray and slept, and dreamed he was told to build. When he woke, the foundations were already laid.
Beside it is a baobab. The story attached to it is that the tree grew from the staff of the man who built the mosque, and there is a stone — the Mystic Stone — that was moved when a road was being cut, and which is said to have returned overnight to where it had been. The road was rerouted.
If you visit Ghana. At Larabanga near Mole National Park, visitors can see the mosque and the Mystic Stone with local guidance.
A small mud-and-stick mosque in the Sudanese style, whitewashed, buttressed, with wooden beams sticking out of the walls like pins — one of the oldest mosques in West Africa, held locally to date from the early fifteenth century.
The tradition says a trader named Ayuba, travelling through, stopped to pray and slept, and dreamed he was told to build. When he woke, the foundations were already laid.
Beside it is a baobab. The story attached to it is that the tree grew from the staff of the man who built the mosque, and there is a stone — the Mystic Stone — that was moved when a road was being cut, and which is said to have returned overnight to where it had been. The road was rerouted.