Kasubi Tombs
Kasubi Tombs is a monument in Rubaga Division, Kampala Capital City, Central Uganda. Kasubi Tombs is situated nearby to the hospital KASUBI DOMICILLIARY, as well as near Kasubi church of Uganda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kasubi Tombs and Namirembe Cathedral.
Kasubi Tombs
Building
Photo: not not phil, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Kasubi Tombs in Kampala, Uganda, is the site of the burial grounds for four kabakas and other members of the Baganda royal family. As a result, the site remains an important spiritual and political site for the Ganda people, as well as an important example of traditional architecture.
Namirembe Cathedral
Church
Photo: Timothy Akolamazima, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Paul's Cathedral Namirembe, commonly and locally referred to as Namirembe Cathedral, is the oldest Anglican cathedral in Uganda. It serves as the provincial cathedral of the Anglican Church of Uganda and the diocesan cathedral for Namirembe Diocese, the first diocese to be founded in the Church of Uganda province in 1890. Namirembe Cathedral is situated 2 km southeast of Kasubi Tombs.
Makerere College School
School
Makerere College School is a co-educational government aided O and A Level school founded in 1945 by Makerere University. In 1945 Makerere University was still a constituent college of the University of London. Makerere College School is situated 1½ km east of Kasubi Tombs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kasubi hill and Namirembe Hill.
Namirembe Hill
Neighborhood
Namirembe is a hill in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. It is also a common name given to girls in several Baganda clans. Namirembe comes from the Luganda word "mirembe" meaning peace.
Makerere
Suburb
Makerere is a neighborhood in the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The name also applies to the hill on which this neighborhood is perched; one of the original seven hills that constituted Kampala at the time of its founding, in the early 1900s.
Kasubi Tombs
- Type: Monument
- Category: historic site
- Location: Rubaga Division, Kampala Capital City, Kampala District, Central Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
0.32931° or 0° 19′ 46″ northLongitude
32.55298° or 32° 33′ 11″ eastOpen location code
6GGJ8HH3+P5OpenStreetMap ID
node 2087512934OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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