Stone Town Wide Doors through time

Zanzibar (Stone Town) 2015–2018 3 photos of this spot

3 recent photographs taken at the same spot in Zanzibar (Stone Town), spanning 2015–2018. Have an older picture of it? Add it and start this spot's timeline.

Photographed from a rooftop in 2015, the sun sets behind a wooden-shuttered upper story and rusted corrugated-iron roofs of Zanzibar's Stone Town. Weathered coral-stone facades with shuttered windows stretch across the frame, typical of the old quarter's Swahili and Omani-influenced architecture.

Call 2015 Photographed from a rooftop in 2015, the sun sets behind a wooden-shuttered upper story and rusted corrugated-iron roofs of Zanzibar's Stone Town. Weathered coral-stone facades with shuttered windows stretch across the frame, typical of the old quarter's Swahili and Omani-influenced architecture.

Stone Town, Zanzibar Town, Tanzania (Unsplash) 2016 Stone Town, the historic core of Zanzibar City, developed as a major Indian Ocean trading center in the nineteenth century. This photograph dates to 2016.

Stone Town Wide Doors 2018 A weathered wooden door with a wide frame is set into a whitewashed wall in Stone Town, Zanzibar. The old town is renowned for its elaborately carved doors, a tradition brought by Arab, Indian, and Swahili craftsmen over centuries of trade.