Great Mosque of Touba
Communauté rurale de Touba Mosquée, Italy
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The Great Mosque of Touba (Arabic: الجامع الكبير في توبا; French: Grande Mosquée de Touba) is a mosque in Touba, Senegal. It was founded by Ahmadou Bamba in 1887 and completed in 1963. Bamba died in 1927 and was interred inside the mosque. Since his death the mosque has been controlled by his family
. It is the largest building in the city and, prior to the construction of the Massalikoul Djinane Mosque in 2019, was one of the largest mosques in Africa, with a capacity of 7,000 worshipers. It is the site of a pilgrimage, the Grand Magal of Touba. It is the home of the Mouride Brotherhood, a Sufi order, thus making it important to that order.
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