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Mosque Shafee

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Mosque Shafee

South African, Islamic
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/90858
Date: creation date: established, 1859/1275 AH, destruction date: collapsed, 1940s, creation date: new structure built on site of original mosque, 1940s or later

Description:

 
Corner of Chiappini & Church Streets, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town. The fifth mosque constructed in Bo-Kaap. Grew out of two separate adjacent congregations that merged to become to the Mosque of Imam Hadjie, later renamed Mosque Shafee.;
 
general view, houses opposite mosque on Chiappini Street, with Table Mountain in background, 1986
 

Type of Work:

Mosque

Subject:

Mosques, Religious architecture, Architecture, Islamic--South Africa, Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Houses, Streetscapes, Architecture, Domestic, Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa)
 
Rights: (c) Mohgamat Phaldie Taliep 1986
 
Rights Statement: All rights reserved

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