Larabanga
Larabanga is a village in northwest Ghana and is located around 6 km south of Mole National Park in the West Gonja District of the Savannah region .
The Muslim village is known for its old mosque . According to a legend, the mosque of Larabanga was built in 1421. It contains a very old edition of the Koran . In any case, it is the oldest mosque in Ghana. Larabanga has been a settlement center of the Kamara since the 17th century at the latest .
In 2002 the mosque in Larabanga was placed on the list of the 100 most endangered cultural assets in the world by the World Monuments Fund .
The place is on the road that branches off south of Tamale from the main road to the west and continues to Wa .
Web links
Commons : Larabanga - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Lauren Bartlett: Introduction to the History and Culture of Larabanga. ( Memento of October 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) www.larabanga.netfirms.com, 2002
- Fabian Sickenberger, Kevin Röhler: House without a guardian. Mosque in Ghana. Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 5, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Ivor Wilks: A Note on the Early Spread of Islam in Dagomba. In: Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana , Vol. 8, 1965, pp. 87-98, here p. 95
Coordinates: 9 ° 13 ′ N , 1 ° 51 ′ W