A Mosque in a Mosque
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22/07/2022
Content Type
Article
Category
Magazine
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Subject Area
Mosques
Author
Cleo Cantone
Publisher Name
Cahiers d’études africaines
Year of Publication
2006
Description
Very little to date has been written about the mosques of Dakar in particular
and Senegal in general. The aim of this paper is therefore to present some
aspects of the earlier Dakarois mosques in an attempt to explore their historical and stylistic evolution through an analysis of two major sources:
contemporary images and archival documentation. Thanks in particular to
the collaboration of Georges Meurillon of Images et Mémoires1
, I have been
able to piece together a tentative chronology for these mosques. As this
is only a part of my thesis (Cantone 2006), I have selected a certain style
of mosque whose earliest dated prototypes are found in the great mosques
of Saint-Louis and rue Blanchot in Dakar. The principal unifying elements
of this type of mosque, as we shall see, are their close resemblance to church
architecture but also their building material, masonry.
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