List of mosques in Africa

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  3. ↑ "Negash Āmedīn Mesgīd". Madain Project. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "Bouteflika's mosque seen as monument to megalomania in Algeria". Arab News. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  5. ↑ "Algeria builds giant mosque with world's tallest minaret". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
  6. 1 2 Reid, Richard J. (12 January 2012). "The Islamic Frontier in Eastern Africa". A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present. John Wiley and Sons. p. 106. ISBN   978-0470658987 . Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "سادات قريش .. أول مسجد في مصر وأفريقيا" ["Sadat Quraish"... the first mosque in Egypt and Africa]. Aledtihad. صحيفة الاتحاد. 7 June 2017. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021.
  8. ↑ Denise Bouche (1974). "L'école française et les musulmans au Sénégal de 1850 à 1920". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer (in French). 61 (223): 218–235. doi:10.3406/outre.1974.1756 – via Persee.fr. Lock-green.svg
  9. ↑ Mire, Sada (2015-03-01). "Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire". African Archaeological Review. 32 (1): 129–130. doi: 10.1007/s10437-015-9184-9 . ISSN   1572-9842.
  10. ↑ Insoll, Timothy (2020). "Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa". In Walker, Bethany; Insoll, Timothy; Fenwick, Corisande (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology. Oxford University Press. p. 430. ISBN   978-0-19-998788-7.
  11. ↑ Fauvelle-Aymar, François-Xavier; Hirsch, Bertrand; Bernard, Régis; Champagne, Frédéric (2011). "Le port de Zeyla et son arrière-pays au Moyen Âge: Investigations archéologiques et retour aux sources écrites". In Fauvelle-Aymar, François-Xavier; Hirsch, Bertrand (eds.). Espaces musulmans de la Corne de l'Afrique au Moyen Âge (in French). Addis Ababa: Centre français des études éthiopiennes. pp. 27–74. ISBN   9782821882652.
  12. ↑ Petersen, Andrew (1996). Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. Routledge. pp. 74, 151. ISBN   978-0-203-20387-3.
  13. ↑ New Mosque Redraws Kampala's Skyline, 24. August 2006; Libyans open Old Kampala mosque Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine , 8. Juni 2007
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