{"id":174344,"date":"2024-04-23T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/23\/bawumia-renovates-larabanga-mosque\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:27:27","slug":"bawumia-renovates-larabanga-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/23\/bawumia-renovates-larabanga-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia Renovates Larabanga Mosque &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The iconic and ancient Larabanga mosque, one of the oldest structures in the country, has been deserving facelift.<\/p>\n<p>The facelift has been made possible after Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia made good his promise of doing so sometime ago.<\/p>\n<p>The mosque is situated in the Savannah Region, the renovation of which facility has earned for the Vice President an added deference.<\/p>\n<p>At the time he set out to undertake the renovation, some persons doubted whether he was indeed going to accomplish the promise.<\/p>\n<p>Now the project is complete and what stands out as a major historical facility in the country would direct the tourist trade towards that part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the oldest mosques in West Africa, this facility is built in the fashion of Sudanese architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Built in about 1421, the mosque has undergone renovation over the years, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia\u2019s being the latest.<\/p>\n<p>It has benefited from the contributions of the World Monuments Fund having been listed as one of the world\u2019s 100 most endangered sites.<\/p>\n<p>An old Quran in the mosque is thought by the locals to have been given as a gift from heaven in 1650 to an imam at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By A.R. 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