Msuka_Mjini_Ruins

Msuka Mjini Ruins

Msuka Mjini Ruins

National Historic Site of Tanzania

Msuka Mjini Ruins (Swahili Mji wa Kale wa Msuka Mjini) is protected historic site located inside Micheweni District of Pemba North Region in Tanzania. Msuka Mjini has a Swahili mosque from the fifteenth century preserved in ruins on the Kigomasha peninsula on the island. The date 816AH (1414 CE) is carved on the interior of the circular mirhab. [2] [3] [4][5]

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  1. [1]
    "Antiquities Division". Retrieved 21 Jul 2022.
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    "Zanzibar Historical Sites". Retrieved 25 Jul 2022.
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    "Settlements of Pemba and Zanzibar" (PDF). Retrieved 25 Jul 2022.
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    James de Vere Allen. “Swahili Culture and the Nature of East Coast Settlement.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 1981, pp. 306–34. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/218047. Accessed 25 Jul. 2022.
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    Schacht, J. “An Unknown Type of Minbar and Its Historical Significance.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 2, 1957, pp. 149–73. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629034. Accessed 25 Jul. 2022.
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