Trade Pilgrimage Routes of North-Western Ghana

Trade Pilgrimage Routes of North-Western Ghana is part of the Tentative list of Ghana in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List.

Click here for a short description of the site, as delivered by the state party.

Map of Trade Pilgrimage Routes of North-Western Ghana

The coordinates shown for all tentative sites were produced as a community effort. They are not official and may change on inscription.

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Michael Novins

United States - 08-Jan-20 -

While returning from Mole National Park to Tamale, I stopped briefly in Larabanga in northern Ghana to visit its whitewashed mud-plaster and wooden-beam mosque, which will celebrate its six hundredth anniversary in two years, making it the oldest mosque in the country and one of the oldest in West Africa and earning it the nickname the Mecca of West Africa.

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Site Info

Full Name: Trade Pilgrimage Routes of North-Western Ghana
Country: Ghana
Added: 2000
Link: By ID

Site History

2000 Revision

Successor to former TWHS Traditional mosques of Northern Ghana (1983)

2000 Added to Tentative List

1983 Deferred

As former TWHS Traditional mosques of Northern Ghana: Deferred until receipt of necessary info

Site Links

Unesco Website: Trade Pilgrimage Routes of North-Western Ghana

Larabanga Mosque

Locations

The site has 2 locations

Trade Pilgrimage Routes of North-Western Ghana: Larabanga (T)

Trade Pilgrimage Routes of North-Western Ghana: Mosque at Wuriyanga near Garu (T)

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