10th-Century Mosque Discovered in Kenya
From Reuters
NAIROBI, Kenya —
Archeologists have discovered the ruins of a 1,000-year-old mosque on the Kenyan coast, the oldest known trace of Islamic culture in East Africa, Richard Wilding, head of coastal archeology at the National Museum of Kenya, said Friday.
The mosque, believed to date from around AD 950, was found among the ruins of a small trading community on Pate Island, near the Somali border, he said by telephone from the port city of Mombasa. The mosque was discovered by a team from Oxford University in Britain.
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