The Great Mosque of Touba was completed in 1963 which is the largest building in the city of Touba and one of the largest mosques in Africa. Andrew J. Whitaker/Staff awhitaker@postandcourier.com Buy ...

KHAN YOUNIS (Reuters) - Balanced on a steep slab of fissured concrete with rods of twisted metal poking out and the remnants of a dome slanted at a 45-degree angle behind him, a young muezzin in a ...

TOUBA and DAKAR, Senegal -- Tens of thousands of Muslims descended upon Senegal's holy city this week for the annual Grand Magal pilgrimage, a tradition in West Africa that some fear could become a ...

Around two million people converged on the Senegalese city of Touba to mark the Grand Magal, commemorating the spiritual rank believed to have been attained by Sheikh Amadou Bamba, founder of the ...

TOUBA, Senegal (Reuters Life!) - Abdoulaye Gueye is too poor for the pilgrimage to Mecca but the Senegalese Muslim could afford an 18-hour journey in a rusting seven-seater taxi to reach the holy city ...