Tsingoni
Tsingoni | |
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.jpg) Tsingoni Mosque | |
 Location of the commune (in red) within Mayotte | |
Location of Tsingoni  | |
| Coordinates: 12°47′09″S 45°06′41″E / 12.7858°S 45.1113°E | |
| Country | France |
| Overseas region and department | Mayotte |
| Canton | Tsingoni |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ali Souffou |
| Area 1 | 34.76 km2 (13.42 sq mi) |
| Population (2012 census) | 10,454 |
| • Density | 300/km2 (780/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+03:00 |
| INSEE/Postal code | 97617 /97680 |
| Elevation | 0–477 m (0–1,565 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Tsingoni is a commune in the French overseas department of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean.
Mosque
Tsingoni Mosque (French: Mosquée de Tsingoni), originally built in 1538, is the oldest active mosque in France.[1] However it is not the oldest mosque in France. There is archaeological evidence of an eighth-century mosque in Narbonne, France.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Pauly, Martial (10 February 2011). "La mosquée de Tsingoni, la plus ancienne mosquée en activité de France (Tsingoni Mosque, the oldest active mosque in France)". Archeologie Mayotte, Océan Indien (in French). Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ Islam Outside the Arab World, David Westerlund, Ingvar Svanberg, Palgrave Macmillan, 1999, page 342
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