The Dakar Grand Mosque (Arabic: المسجد الكبير في داكار, French: Grande Mosquée de Dakar) is one of the most important religious buildings in Dakar, Senegal...

Dakar (/dɑːˈkɑːr, dæ-/ UK also: /ˈdækɑːr/; French: [dakaʁ]; Wolof: Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a...

Abuja National Mosque in Abuja, FCT Great Mosque of Kano Lagos Central Mosque in Lagos, Lagos State Grand Mosque of Dakar Great Mosque of Touba Jama'a Xamar...

The Great Mosque of Touba (Arabic: الجامع الكبير في توبا, French: Grande Mosquée de Touba) is a mosque in Touba, Senegal. It was founded by Ahmad Bamba...

part of Diourbel Region and Mbacké district. With a population of 1,120,824 in 2023, it is the second most populated Senegalese city after Dakar. It is...

Baay, or "father." Niasse was the first West African to have led al-Azhar Mosque in Egypt, after which he was styled "Sheikh al-Islam". He became close to...

This is a list of mosques in Africa. Africa portal Islam portal Islam in Africa Lists of mosques جولة الرئيس السيسي في مركز مصر الثقافي الإسلامي مع الشيخ...

adjacent to the future location of The Grand Mosque. He was succeeded by his descendants as hereditary leaders of the brotherhood with absolute authority...

order is centered in the city of Touba. The Layene are a smaller Sufi order, centered at Yoff north of Dakar. Review of Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods...

members of the Tijaniyya Sufi order. Cisse is based in Senegal and serves as the Imam of the Grand Mosque in the village of Medina Baye, now part of the city...

Dakar, Université de Dakar, 1986, 92 p. (Mémoire de Maîtrise) Short Biography the Mame Mawdo Malick Sy Foundation El Hadj Malick Sy : Soufi et Grand accoucheur...

ethno-linguistic group, many of whom originally lived in fishing communities on the Cap-Vert peninsula on the northern edge of Dakar, Senegal. The Layene brotherhood...

The Grand Magal of Touba is the annual religious pilgrimage of the Senegalese Mouride Brotherhood, one of the four Islamic Sufi orders of Senegal. On...

Retrieved 26 July 2020. Daye, Ali (21 March 2018). "Grand Mosque Expansion Highlights Growth of Saudi Arabian Tourism Industry (6 mins)". Cornell Real...

Dakar, Rufisque and Gorée. It is also one of the sacred places of the Tijaniyya Sufi brotherhood. Each week, followers come to visit the tombs of religious...

d'arrondissement), part of the city (commune) of Dakar, located in Senegal. It lies north of downtown Dakar and immediately north of Léopold Sédar Senghor...

Bienfait (K. Mbacké, Trans.) Dakar, Senegal: Imprimerie Saint Paul Kâ, S. M. (1930) ﻝ ﻓﺍ ﮬﯿﻡ ﺍ ﺑﺮ ﺇ ﺸﺍﺥ ﻡ ﻣﺎ ﯘﻟﻔﻝ (the poetry of Cheikh Ibrahima Fall), Touba...

stabilizing the price of groundnuts, vital to Mouride economic interests (see below) and promised to subsidize the completion of the Grand Mosque of Touba. In this...

Hassan Cisse (1945-2008) was a spokesman of Tijani Sufism. His publications include the following: “Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse”, Introduction to Pearls from...

Mouhammadou Limamou Laye (1843–1909) was the founder of the Layene Sufi order. After the death of his mother he declared himself to be the Mahdi on May...

2009) S. Thiam, Dama Diarra Bousso: Un idéal de vie. Mémoire de maîtrise. Dakar, Senegal: UCAD (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), 1998 Mbacke, Saliou (January...

and was buried there in December 2011. The Grand Al Hassanayni Mosque (meaning: the "Two Hassans" Mosque) of Darou Hidjiratou was built by the Mozdahir...

superiority of their brotherhood's path over others. Mosques are created by specific brotherhoods, though individuals are free to attend whichever mosque they...

Dakar, Université de Dakar, 1970. Keita, Kélétigui S. Curry, Ginette, In Search of Maba: A 19th Century Epic from Senegambia, West Africa (Preface of...

uninterested in the logistical aspects of inculcating Islam such as building courts, madrassahs, and mosques. The primary function of Omar Tall's state was predatory...

Leichtman, Mara A. (2010). “Shi‘a Lebanese Migrants and Senegalese Converts in Dakar,” in Sabrina Mervin, ed., The Shi‘a Worlds and Iran, London: Saqi Books...

December 1887) was a nineteenth-century Tijani marabout who led a series of rebellions against the French colonial government in what is now Senegal....

The Mosques of West Africa are mosques located in the region of West Africa that encompasses Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea...

born on 6 May 1959 in Aiyepe town of Ijebu, Ogun State Nigeria He lived a civilised and spiritual life and made people of his society, Muslims (within and...

to Hamallism were Tierno Bokar Salif Tall, grand nephew of the precolonial military and political leader of the Tijaniyya Jihad state El-Hadj Umar Tall...