Old Fort of Zanzibar

Old Fort of Zanzibar

Also known as Ngome Kongwe

Year

1699

Type

building

The oldest standing building in Stone Town, built by the Omanis in the 1690s on the foundations of a Portuguese church called Santo Antonio that had stood here for most of the previous century. The plan is a square of high merlon-topped cor …

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