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Specifications. Dome (s) 2. Minaret (s) 4. Website. abujanationalmosque.org. The Abuja National Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الوطني أبوجا), also known as the Nigerian National Mosque, is the national mosque of Nigeria. The mosque was built in 1984 [1] and is open to the non-Muslim public, except during congregational prayers.
The Nigerian National Museum is a national museum of Nigeria, located in the city of Lagos. The museum has a notable collection of Nigerian art, including pieces of statuary, carvings also archaeological and ethnographic exhibits. [ 1 ] Of note is a terracotta human head known as the Jemaa Head (c. 900 to 200 BC), part of the Nok culture.
museum.ng. The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), also referred to as National Museum of Nigeria was Founded in 1979 by the Federal Government of Nigeria with decree 77 of 1979 to be in charge of the collection, documentation, conservation and presentation of the National Cultural properties to the public for the purposes of ...
National War Museum, Umuahia. The Nigerian National War Museum in Umuahia showcases the military history of Nigeria with relics form the Biafra-Nigerian Civil War. It has a collection of tanks, armored vehicles, ships, and aircraft all from Nigeria or the defunct Republic of Biafra. [ 1 ] Almost all tanks and AFLs are Biafran and all aircraft ...
On 27 May 1967 the Nigerian government divided the Western, Northern and Eastern Region into 12 states [34] and Enugu was made the capital of the new East Central State. [1] On 30 May 1967 Enugu was declared the capital of the short-lived Republic of Biafra, the latter created out of the eastern Nigerian states of East Central, Cross River and ...
The Nsude pyramid shrines are an archaeological site located in Nsude, a village in Southeastern Nigeria in modern-day Enugu. A Nsude pyramid taken by G.I Jones 1935. These pyramid-shaped shrines were constructed by the Igbo people. In the 1930s [1] an anthropologist and colonial administrator in the area, G.I. Jones, photographed them.
Zuma Rock is a large natural monolith, or inselberg, an igneous intrusion composed of gabbro and granodiorite, located in Madalla, a town in Niger State, Nigeria. [1] It is situated in the west of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, along the main road from Abuja to Kaduna, off Madalla, and is sometimes referred to as the "Gateway to Abuja from Suleja". [2]
The church was designed in a Postmodern version of the Neo-Gothic style by Nigerian architectural firm Darchiwork Group, located in Lagos. The project was started around 1989, then lay dormant for several years until 2004, when the Christian Association of Nigeria organized a committee to ensure its speedy completion. The dedication, on 2 ...