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The Taluksangay Mosque was built by Hadji Abdullah Maas Nuno in 1885 in the Official Website of Zamboanga City - Profile of Taluksangay
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Taluksangay Mosque
Mosques in Mindanao Buildings and structures in Zamboanga City Mosques completed in 1885 19th-century religious buildings and structures in the Philippines {{Philippines-struct-stub
The Taluksangay Mosque was built by Hadji Abdullah Maas Nuno in 1885 in the Barangay
A barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as barrio (abbreviated as Bo.), is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district, or ward. In metropolita ...
Taluksangay, Zamboanga, the Philippines
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. It is the oldest mosque
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in Western Mindanao
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.
Taluksangay was the first center of Islamic propagation in the Zamboanga Peninsula. Muslim religious missionaries from Arabia, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Borneo have been flocking to this village. A representative of the Sultan of Turkey (Sheik-Al Islam) visited this place in later part of 1914.
At the height of the MNLF (Moro National Liberation Front
The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF; ar, الجبهة الوطنية لتحرير مورو) is a political organization in the Philippines that was founded in 1972. It started as a splinter group of the Muslim Independence Movement. The ...
) military conflict in 1973, members of the Quadripartite Committee, Generals Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos (, ; March 18, 1928 – July 31, 2022), popularly known as FVR and Eddie Ramos, was a Filipino general and politician who served as the 12th president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. He was the only career military ...
and Romeo Espino, visited Taluksangay village. Even at the height of trouble during the 1970s, tourists continued to arrive in this historical village.
The majority of the inhabitants of Taluksangay are Muslims the descendants of the Sama Banguingui who were branded by history as pirates of Southeast Asia, but never conquered./ref>
See also
*Islam in the Philippines
Islam was the first-recorded monotheistic religion in the Philippines. Islam reached the Philippines in the 14th century with the arrival of Muslim traders from the Persian Gulf, southern India, and their followers from several sultanates in t ...
References
External links
* Heritage Conservation SocietyTaluksangay Mosque
Mosques in Mindanao Buildings and structures in Zamboanga City Mosques completed in 1885 19th-century religious buildings and structures in the Philippines {{Philippines-struct-stub