Lagos Central Mosque

Maker:

Costa, João Batista da Aka, Sanusi

Medium:

cement (construction material) wood (plant material) stucco tile (material)

Tradition:

Islamic

Place of Origin:

Nigeria > Lagos

Date:

1897

ID:

220036

Keywords:

Architecture Mosque Islam Nigeria

Notes:

Photographs taken in 1981, from John Picton, “Keeping the Faith: Islam and West African Art History in the Nineteenth Century,” in Islamic Art in the 19th Century: Tradition, Innovation, and Eclecticism, eds. Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Stephen Vernoit (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 221.