Kampala District
Kampala Capital City
Rubaga Division

Kasubi Tombs

The Kasubi Tombs in , , 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.
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: Grass thatched round house containing the tombs and insignia of Mutesa I, and three northern subsequent rulers of Buganda
  • Also known as: “Kampala Kasubi Tombs”, “Kasubi Royal Tombs”, “The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi”, and “Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi”
Photo: Z thomas, CC BY 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mengo Hospital and Namirembe Cathedral.

Hospital
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, also known as Namirembe Hospital, is a private, faith-based, community, teaching hospital in , the capital and largest city of . is situated 2 km south of Kasubi Tombs.

Church
Photo: Timothy Akolamazima, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Paul's Cathedral Namirembe, commonly and locally referred to as , is the oldest Anglican cathedral in . It serves as the provincial cathedral of the Anglican and the diocesan cathedral for Namirembe Diocese, the first diocese to be founded in the Church of Uganda province in 1890. is situated 1½ km southeast of Kasubi Tombs.

Hospital
Photo: Ssemmanda will, CC0.
, is a private community hospital, in , in the of . is situated 2 km east of Kasubi Tombs.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kasubi hill and Namirembe Hill.

Suburb
Kasubi is a hill in , 's capital and largest city.

Neighborhood
Namirembe is a hill in , '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.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in the city of , '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

Latitude
0.32913° or 0° 19′ 45″ north
Longitude
32.5533° or 32° 33′ 12″ east
Open location code
6GGJ8HH3+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 52866980
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q309426
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kasubi Tombs” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قبور كاسوبي”
  • Armenian: “Կասուբիում Բուգանդա թագավորների գերեզման”
  • Asturian: “Tumbes de los reis de Buganda en Kasubi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kasubi türbələri”
  • Bengali: “কাসুবির সমাধি”
  • Catalan: “Kasubi”
  • Catalan: “tombes de Kasubi”
  • Catalan: “Tombes de Kasubi”
  • Chinese: “卡苏比王陵”
  • Chinese: “卡苏比陵”
  • Chinese: “卡蘇比王陵”
  • Croatian: “Grobnice Kasubi”
  • Croatian: “Grobnice kraljeva Buganda u Kasubi”
  • Croatian: “Kasubi grobnice”
  • Czech: “Hrobky bugandských králů v Kasubi”
  • Dagbani: “Kasubi Tombs”
  • Danish: “Bugandakongernes grave”
  • Dutch: “Tombes van Kasubi”
  • Esperanto: “Tomboj de reĝoj de Bugando en Kasubio”
  • Fanti: “Kasubi Nda”
  • Farefare: “Kasubi Tombs”
  • Finnish: “Bugandan kuninkaallinen mausoleumi”
  • French: “tombeaux des rois du Buganda à Kasubi”
  • French: “Tombeaux des rois du Buganda à Kasubi”
  • French: “Tombes Kasubi”
  • Ganda: “Amasiro g’abaSsekabaka”
  • Ganda: “amasiro g’eKasubi”
  • Georgian: “კასუბის საფლავი”
  • German: “Gräber der Buganda-Könige in Kasubi”
  • German: “Kasubi Tombs”
  • Greek: “Τάφοι Κασούμπι”
  • Greek: “Τάφοι των Βασιλιάδων της Μπουγκάντα στο Κασούμπι”
  • Guarani: “Kasúvi tyvykuéra”
  • Hebrew: “קברי מלכי בוגנדה בקסובי”
  • Hungarian: “A Buganda királyok síremléke Kasubiban”
  • Indonesian: “Makam Kasubi”
  • Italian: “tombe di Kasubi”
  • Italian: “Tombe di Kasubi”
  • Japanese: “カスビのブガンダ歴代国王の墓”
  • Japanese: “カスビのブガンダ王国歴代国王の墓”
  • Korean: “카수비 묘”
  • Kotava: “Kasubi naboxaxo”
  • Latvian: “Kasubi kapenes”
  • Lithuanian: “Bugandos karalių kapai”
  • Lithuanian: “Kasubio kapai”
  • Malay: “Kubur Kasubi”
  • Malay: “Kuburan Kasubi”
  • Maltese: “Oqbra ta‘ Kasubi”
  • Maltese: “Oqbra tar-Rejiet ta‘ Buganda f’Kasubi”
  • Maltese: “Oqbra tar-Rejiet ta’ Buganda f’Kasubi”
  • Mingrelian: “კასუბიშ საფულე”
  • Mossi: “Kasubi Tombs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bugandakongenes graver”
  • Norwegian: “Bugandakongenes graver”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਸੂਬੀ ਕਬਰਾਂ”
  • Persian: “مقبره‌های کاسوبی”
  • Polish: “Kasubi”
  • Portuguese: “Túmulos dos Reis do Buganda em Kasubi”
  • Portuguese: “Túmulos em Cassubi”
  • Russian: “Захоронение королей Буганда в Касуби”
  • Russian: “Захоронение королей Буганды в Касуби”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kasubi grobnice”
  • Slovak: “Hrobky bugandských kráľov v Kasubi”
  • Slovenian: “Grobnice bugandskih kraljev v Kasubiju”
  • Spanish: “Tumbas de los reyes de Buganda en Kasubi”
  • Swahili: “Kasubi”
  • Swedish: “Kasubi”
  • Tamil: “கசுபி கல்லறைகள்”
  • Turkish: “Kasubi Mezarları”
  • Twi: “Kasubi Adamoa”
  • Ukrainian: “Поховання королів Буганди в Касубі”
  • Vietnamese: “Lăng mộ Kasubi”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուկանտա թագաւորներու դամբաններ, Քասուպի”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاسوبی قبراں”

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