Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
African & Afro-Diasporic Sacred site / complex
Created and maintained by Ayara and Kyle Jonathan B@KJB_and_AYARA
Neutral catalog summary
About this record
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara is cataloged as a Sacred site / complex within African & Afro-Diasporic. Its candidate country context is “Tanzania” and its period or origin is “9th–19th centuries.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Swahili Islamic mosque and funerary archaeology.”
This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.
Record fields
- Alternate / historical names
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
- Parent tradition
- Swahili Islamic mosque and funerary archaeology
- Public geographic context
- Tanzania
- Period / origin
- 9th–19th centuries
- Living / historical status
- Documented bounded historical or archaeological sacred complex
- Access / protocol
- Scholarly / historical only
- Evidence status
- Directly cited
Geography
CandidateTanzania
Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.
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Stable attribution
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Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 3374. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/3374
Created and maintained by Ayara and Kyle Jonathan B@KJB_and_AYARA · https://x.com/KJB_and_AYARA