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Description
Property Name: Mnarani Mosque
Inventory No: 254-123-3
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2008-02-26
Country (State party): Kenya
Province: Malindi
Town: Mnarani
Geographic coordinates: 3° 38′ 33.14″ S
39° 51′ 15.39″ E
Historic Period:
Year of Construction: 15th century
Style:
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use:
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Gone through many stages of construction, only the external walls and the mihrab had survived from the original mosque.
Selection Criteria
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
The original mosque was built around 1475, while the later mosque in about 1500. The final alterations to the mosques were probably not completed before the 16th century. Mnarani was eventually destroyed by the Galla in the early 17th century and archaeological evidence seems to confirm this.
These ruins were first gazetted in March 1929 in Gazette Notice No.170 as “Ruins of Mnarani” and later confirmed as Monuments in Gazette Notice. Thus to date they are known as Ruins of an Old Mosque in Kilifi.
İt is now open to visit as picnic site.
References
Garlake, Peter S. 1966. The Early Islamic Architecture of the East African Coast. London: Oxford University Press.