File:Larabanga Mosque Ghana.jpg

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العربية: مسجد لارابانكا الواقع في قرية لارابانكا، في غانا. بُني في القران الرابع عشر الميلادي وفق نمط العمارة السودانيَّة. وهو أقدم مساجد أفريقيا الغربيَّة.

English: Larabanga Mosque in the village of Larabanga, Ghana. Aa 14th Century Sudanese Architecture. The oldest mosque in Western Africa.

This is a photo of Ghana's material cultural heritage number

GH-NP-001

Date

15 December 2011, 14:43:11

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Own work

Author

Sathyan Velumani

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:40, 28 October 2012		2,194 × 1,457 (3.2 MB)	Elitre	(basic retouch)
	18:03, 16 September 2012		2,194 × 1,457 (1.64 MB)	Sathyan.velumani	User created page with UploadWizard

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Usage on ar.wikipedia.org
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- مسجد لارابانكا
Usage on ba.wikipedia.org
- Судан-Сәхил архитектураһы
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- Вікіпэдыя:Выява дня/2012/10
Usage on bh.wikipedia.org
Usage on bn.wikipedia.org
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- Spisak najstarijih džamija
Usage on dag.wikipedia.org
- Larabaŋa Jiŋli
- Ghana's material cultural heritage
Usage on da.wikipedia.org
- Bruger:Palnatoke/Julequiz/2012
- Larabanga-moskeen
Usage on de.wikipedia.org
- Islamische Architektur
- Portal:Afrika/Bild des Tages/Mai
Usage on en.wikivoyage.org
- Mole National Park
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- Islam en África
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Usage on fi.wikipedia.org
- Larabanga
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- Islam in Ghana
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- Addinai a Ghana
- Musulunci a Ghana

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File:Larabanga Mosque Ghana.jpg

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Larabanga Mosque

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some value

copyright status

copyrighted

copyright license

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

source of file

original creation by uploader

inception

15 December 2011

captured with

Nikon D90

participant in

Wiki Loves Monuments 2012

ISO speed

640

exposure time

0.00125 second

f-number

14

focal length

18 millimetre

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