Established in 1825, Palm Tree Mosque is Cape Town's second oldest mosque. When
Tuan Guru, the "father of the Islamic faith in South Africa", died in 1807, he left his imamship of the Auwal Mosque to Abdulalim, much to the dismay of two of his congregation members, Frans van Bengalen and Jan van Boughies, who resigned from the mosque and started a langgar (prayer room) in the upper storey of Jan's house in Long Street, receiving mosque status in 1825. "A century and a few decades later, the name of Jan van Boughies Mosque was changed to a more succinct one, alluding to the towering palm out front, which is said to have been planted by Jan himself."
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