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COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De Jamia Moskee in het centrum van Nairobi TMnr, Nairobi, Kenya, 1973

COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De Jamia Moskee in het centrum van Nairobi TMnr

1973 Nairobi, Kenya

Jamia Mosque stands in central Nairobi, serving as the city's principal mosque for its Muslim community since the early twentieth century. This 1973 image comes from the Tropenmuseum collection, part of a large Dutch archive documenting life across former colonial territories.

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