Lamu

Lamu or Lamu Town is a small metropolis on Lamu Island, which in flip is part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated 341 kilometres through street northeast of Mombasa that ends at Mokowe Jetty, from wherein the ocean channel must be crossed to attain Lamu Island. It is the headquarters of Lamu County and a UNESCO World Heritage web page. The metropolis carries the Lamu Fort at the seafront, creation beneath Fumo Madi ibn Abi Bakr, the sultan of Pate, and become completed after his demise in the early 1820s.

Lamu is likewise domestic to 23 mosques, which includes the Riyadha Mosque, built in 1900, and a donkey sanctuary. Lamu Town on Lamu Island is Kenya's oldest always inhabited city, and became one of the unique Swahili settlements along coastal East Africa. It is believed to were mounted in 1370. Today, most of the people of Lamu's population is Muslim. The metropolis was first attested in writing by way of an Arab traveller Abu-al-Mahasini, who met a judge from Lamu traveling Mecca in 1441.