Gaddafi Mosque
The Gaddafi Mosque is a mosque located in Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania. With capacity for 3,000 worshipers, it is the largest mosque in the country, and the second-largest in East Africa after the Uganda National Mosque.Photo: Mangapwani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Mosque
- Denomination: Sunni
- Description: mosque in Dodoma, Tanzania
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dodoma Airport and Mirembe National Mental Health Hospital.
Dodoma Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Erasmus Kamugisha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dodoma Airport is an airport serving the Tanzanian capital of Dodoma located in the Dodoma Region. It has a runway that's 2,450 metres long, at an elevation of 1,109 metres.
Mirembe National Mental Health Hospital
Hospital
Mirembe National Mental Health Hospital, formerly called Mirembe Hospital for the Insane, is the national psychiatric hospital in Dodoma, Tanzania. In 1927, the British colonial administration built the hospital, which handled mental patients from all over the Tanganyika Territory. Mirembe National Mental Health Hospital is situated 2 km southwest of Gaddafi Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dodoma and Majengo.
Dodoma
Photo: Massimiliano, CC BY 2.0.
Dodoma, officially Dodoma City, is the capital city of Tanzania. With a population of 765,179, it is also the administrative capital of both Dodoma Municipal Council and the entire Dodoma Region.
Majengo
Suburb
Majengo is an administrative ward of the Dodoma Municipal Council of the Dodoma Region in Tanzania. The Chamwino and Kizota wards border the ward to the north. Uhuru borders the ward to the east, and Madukani borders it to the south.
Makole
Suburb
Makole is an administrative ward of the Dodoma Municipal Council of the Dodoma Region in Tanzania. The Miyuji and Ipagala wards border the ward to the north and east, respectively.
Gaddafi Mosque
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Uhuru, Dodoma Municipal Council, Dodoma, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-6.17281° or 6° 10′ 22″ southLongitude
35.74588° or 35° 44′ 45″ eastOpen location code
6G5QRPGW+V9OpenStreetMap ID
way 369868747OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=mosqueOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=sunniWikidata ID
Q15221246
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Gaddafi Mosque” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مسجد معمر القذافي”
- Asturian: “Mezquita Gadafi”
- Bengali: “গাদ্দাফি মসজিদ”
- Chinese: “卡扎菲清真寺”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد معمر القذافى”
- Korean: “카다피 모스크”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaddafi-moskeen”
- Norwegian: “Gaddafi-moskeen”
- Russian: “Мечеть Каддафи”
- Spanish: “Mezquita Gadafi”
- Swahili: “Msikiti wa Gaddafi, Dodoma”
- Swahili: “Msikiti wa Gaddafi”
- Uzbek: “Qaddafiy masjidi”
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Highlights include Gaddafi Mosque and Open space for worship.
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