Ghana
Savannah Region
West Gonja Municipal District

Larabanga Mosque

The Larabanga Mosque is a built in the Sudanese architectural style in the village of , . It is the oldest mosque in the country and one of the oldest in , and has been referred to as the " of West Africa".
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  • Opening hours: 6:00 AM—6:00 PM
  • Type: Mosque
  • Description: is a mosque built in the Sudanese architectural style in Ghana
  • Also known as: “Mecca of west Africa”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Larabanga.

Town
Photo: Haruna Mohammed, Public domain.
is a town in West Gonja district, a district in the of . It is known for its whitewashed adobe Sahelian , said to date from 1421, and which, having been built at the height of the trans-Saharan trade, is reputed to be Ghana's oldest mosque and houses a copy of the Qur'an almost as old.

Larabanga Mosque

Latitude
9.22032° or 9° 13′ 13″ north
Longitude
-1.85995° or 1° 51′ 36″ west
Open location code
6CXW64CR+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7067987939
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q490898
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Larabanga Mosque” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جامع لارابانكا”
  • Arabic: “مسجد لارابانكا”
  • Belarusian: “Лярабанга”
  • Bengali: “লারাবাঙ্গা মসজিদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “लाराबांगा मस्जिद”
  • Chinese: “拉拉班加清真寺”
  • Czech: “Mešita v Larabanze”
  • Dagbani: “Larabaŋa Jiŋli”
  • Danish: “Larabanga-moskeen”
  • Dutch: “Larabanga Mosque”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد لارابانكا”
  • French: “Mecca d’Afrique l’Ouest”
  • French: “mosquée de Larabanga”
  • French: “Mosquée de Larabanga”
  • Fulah: “Larabanga Mosque”
  • German: “Larabanga-Moschee”
  • German: “Moschee von Larabanga”
  • Hausa: “Masallacin Larabanga”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד לרבנגה”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Larabanga”
  • Italian: “moschea di Larabanga”
  • Italian: “Moschea di Larabanga”
  • Javanese: “Masjid Larabanga”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Larabanga”
  • Malay: “Masjid Larabanga”
  • Minangkabau: “Musajik Larabanga”
  • Persian: “مسجد لارابانگا”
  • Romanian: “Moscheea din Larabanga”
  • Slovenian: “Meka Zahodne Afrike”
  • Slovenian: “mošeja Larabanga”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita de Larabanga”
  • Swahili: “Msikiti wa Larabanga”
  • Twi: “Larabanga Kramodan”
  • Western Mari: “Ларабанга мечеть”
  • “लाराबांगा मस्जिद”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Larabanga Mosque”. Photo: Sathyan.velumani, CC BY-SA 3.0.