Shanga

Lamu County · Kenya

Shanga, Kenya
Photo: Georg Pik, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

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An abandoned medieval Swahili settlement on Pate Island whose excavated mosques and coin finds trace the earliest phases of Islam in East Africa. Its ruined coral-stone Friday mosque is a key archaeological site.

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