jan van bougies Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/jan-van-bougies Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:52:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 PALM TREE MOSQUE Long Street Cape Town http://toursmaps.com/palm-tree-mosque-long-street-cape-town.html Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:26:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=247627 A little two-storey, 18th-century building in Long Street, originally a house, survives in use as a mosque – for which it was first used early in the 19th century. Originally two palms grew in a garden in front of it – only one of which survives. A 185 Long Street is an 18th-century house. It’s rather an odd sight: incongruously domestic-looking in a sea of shops and nightclubs, a tall, lone palm at its door. The most striking thing about it is that it’s there at all. A lone survivor of a time when Long Street was lined with one-

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