The Decoration of the Fakhr Al Din Masjid
Written by Elizabeth Lambourn
One of the oldest mosques in Mogadishu is the Fakhr al-Din mosque, reportedly named after one of the early Sultans of the area Abu Bakr ibn Fakhr al-Din, and datable to the 13th or 14th centuries AD on the basis of constructional and other details.
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