Masjied Boorhaanol Islaam
Abrahams, Hadjie Abduraghman
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Alternative Titles
Mosque Boorhaanol Islam
Pilgrim Mosque
Date
1884Description
193 Longmarket Street, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town. Established in 1884 as Pilgrim Mosque. Its wooden minaret was the first minaret to be constructed on a mosque in Cape Town. When it blew down during a storm in the late 1930s and was replaced by a concrete structure, it was decided to renovate and expand the entire mosque in the post-WWII years. The name was changed to Mosque Boorhaanol Islam in 1949 then to its current name in 1970. The mosque has been declared a national monument. exterior, view along Longmarket Street, watercolor by Ebrahim Larney, April 1986
Type of Work
MosqueSubject
Mosques, Religious architecture, National monuments, Architecture, Islamic--South Africa, Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa), Streetscapes
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