It is a mosque located on the southern tip of the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania. It is one of the oldest Islamic buildings on the East African coast. According to an inscription engraved in Kufic script, it was built in the year 1107 AD, by settlers from Shiraz, although the inscription and some inscribed decorative elements The coral dates back to the construction period, the majority of the current construction was reconstructed in the eighteenth century.