Larabanga and the mud mosque

Larabanga, a small town, lies at the entrance to Mole National Park. According to the Bradt guidebook, it hosts the most famous and reputedly oldest of the West-Sudanese-style mud-and-stick mosques in Ghana. The exact age of the mosque and its builder(s) is subjected to dispute. Can't remember the exact story but it goes something like this. A man wanted to built a new house and somehow he decided to throw his spear and relocate to whatever the spear landed. Miraclously, the spear flew half a kilometre and landed at the present location of the mosque. Even more amazing, it landed in a foundation which had appeared out of nowhere and he decided to build a mosque upon that foundation. Not too sure about the authenticity of the story, but one thing's for sure, it's a old mosque with a unique architecture and that's all I need to know.

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Traditional mud hut









Guide explaining the story behind the mosque









The mosque