Nairobi, Kenya
Jamia Mosque
Jamia Mosque, also known as Jamia Masjid, is a Sunni mosque on Banda Street in the Nairobi Central Business District, Kenya. The present mosque was designed by Glasgow-based architect William Landels and constructed between 1925 and 1933 through an extensive community fundraising effort organised by the Anjuman Islamia, also known as the Jamia Mosque Association. Its architecture draws principally on seventeenth-century Mughal architecture, particularly the Jama Masjid in Delhi and the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, while incorporating elements associated with British and Scottish architecture.
- City
- Nairobi
- Country
- Kenya
- Category
- Religious
- Suggested visit
- About 45 minutes
More places in Nairobi
- Nairobi National Park
- Maasai Mara
- Karen Blixen Museum, Kenya
- Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Nairobi
- Tom Mboya Monument
- Nairobi Arboretum
Background: Wikipedia