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The Great Mosque of Touba

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One of the major obstacles he faced was the unavailability of means of transport to transport the materials from Diourbel where the train stopped in Touba over a distance of 45 km. Faced with the colonial authorities’ demand to pay all the site workers who were his followers and who had also agreed to make their sweat their participation in the project, Moustapha then fixed with the colonists the daily pay of each site worker but to his great astonishment the workers went to the cash desk to collect and immediately remitted the pay as a contribution. He then set about building the rails over this entire distance. When he died in 1945, the work was taken over by his successor Mouhammadou Falilou M’BackĂ©, second son of Ahmadou Bamba. The mosque was inaugurated on Friday June 7, 1963 by Mouhammadou Falilou M’BackĂ©.

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Architect

Type

Central

Country

United Kingdom

Owner/Founder

le cheikh Ahmadou Bamba

Year

1963

Area

25 000

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