Territory West Africa Province Mbacké Capacity 7,000 Status Mosque | Municipality Touba State Senegal Address Touba, Senegal Phone +221 77 435 83 16 Architectural style Islamic architecture | |
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Affiliation Mouride brotherhoodIslamTariqa order Similar Grand Mosque of Dakar, Grand Mosque of Paris, Gambia River, Great Mosque of Kairouan, Gorée | ||
The Great Mosque of Touba (French: Grande Mosquée de Touba) is a mosque in Touba, Senegal.It was founded by Amadou Bamba in 1887 and completed in 1963, who died in 1927 and is interred inside the mosque.Since his death the mosque is being controlled by his family. It is the largest building in the city and one of the largest mosques in Africa, with a capacity of 7,000. It is the sight of a pilgrimage, the Grand Magal of Touba.
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It is the home of the Mouride Brotherhood, a Sufi order.
Design
The mosque has five minarets and three large domes. The central minaret is 87-metre (285 ft) tall,and is called Lamp Fall,who is a reference to Sheikh Ibrahima Fall, one of Bamba’s most influential disciples.
The immediate vicinity of the mosque houses the mausolea of Amadou Bamba’s sons, the caliphs of the Mouride order. Other important institutions in the center of the holy city include a library, the Caliph’s official audience hall, a sacred “Well of Mercy”, and a cemetery.
Burial
Amadou Bamba, buried inside the mosque.