Larabanga Mosque Has Not Collapsed-Management
Management of Ghana’s oldest mosques, the Larabanga mosque located in the Savannah region have called on the public to disregard reports of the collapse of the mosque.
There were trending news on social media last week suggesting that the mosque collapsed after a rainstorm, but this has turned out to be false.

EagleGhana sources in the Savannah region who vitied the site of the Mosque confiremed that, the tourist attracting religious edifice is still intact and in very good shape and welcoming both local and international tourists with its amazing designs and unique features.
According the managers of the mosque, the collapsed mosque was rather a different mosque with similar design located at Bole that collapsed on Sunday, September 17, 2023.
The Larabanga Mosque is a mosque built in the Sudanese architectural style in the community of Larabanga in the west Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region.

It is the oldest mosque in the country and one of the oldest in West Africa, and has been referred to as the “Mecca of West Africa”.
It has undergone restoration several times since it was founded in 1421.
The mosque has an old Quran, believed by the locals to have been given as a gift from heaven in 1650 to Yidan Barimah Bramah, the Imam at the time, as a result of his prayers.
The Larabanga mosque is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Ghana.
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