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Chinguetti Mosque
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We drove for two days, sometimes lost at the edge of the Sahara, Just as dusk was falling on the second day we could make out some lights of the town in the distance, luckily since there was only starlight in the Sahara. The next day, when we went to visit the mosque itself we felt the drive was well worth it. Chinguetti had been an important center of worship since the thirteenth or fourteenth century. They say the minaret of this ancient structure is the second oldest in continuous use anywhere in the Muslim world. It is the official symbol of Mauritania, and is now threatened by the encroaching desert
