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Great Mosque of Touba (Tomb of Ahmadou Bamba)

Who rests here

Saints · died 1346 AH · Touba

Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (Serigne Touba, 'Khadim al-Rasul'), founder of the Mouride Sufi order, was a scholar and symbol of nonviolent resistance to French colonialism in Senegal. He died on 19 July 1927 and is interred inside the Great Mosque of Touba, the city he founded and whose mosque he had planned.

Full biography of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké →(the text above is quoted from the person's record)

How to get there

Located in: Touba

Coordinates: 14.86310, -15.87550

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Permanent ID: EA-Y-000366 · this address reaches the same record even if its name changes; use it when citing.