Johannesburg, Jul 10 (PTI): The trustees of a mosque in South Africa's coastal city of Durban that was targeted in a foiled bombing attempt vowed on Wednesday to continue prayers there ...

Along the West African coast, it is one of many Afro-Brazilian mosques built in the early 20th Century by returning descendants of freed slaves. "It shows the many layers that are specific to ...

A Quran - neatly handwritten more than 200 years ago by an Indonesian imam who had been banished to the southern tip of Africa by Dutch colonisers - is the pride of Cape Town Muslims who jealously ...

A man stabbed to death two people at a South African Mosque before being shot dead by police. [Photo: AFP] A man stabbed two people to death and wounded two others in an attack at a mosque in ...

Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of ...

The grassy courtyard takes inspiration from North African mosques, with a spouting fountain at its heart. A July 1981 article in The Republic stated Masjid Jauharatul-Islam was the first mosque ...

In contrast to North Africa, East Africa was never subject to one wide, sweeping Muslim takeover. Islam came to the East African coast in many waves and at different times. There is no single date ...

The police officer said the investor from South Africa identified as Arie Dempers who is also the Managing Director of Taveta Kisima Farm entered into the Mata village Mosque where he complained ...