Awooto Eeday Mosque

The Awooto Eeday Mosque is small mosque in the historical Hamar Weyne district of Mogadishu, Banaadir, in Somalia.

Overview

The historical Hamar Weyne district contains approximately 25 small mosques.
The mosque is said to have been built with the money of a pious woman who was known as Awooto Eeday.
Above the mihrab of this mosque there's a plate with inscriptions which bears, according to Prof. Sharif Abdalla. However, according Maria Roasrio La Lomia, the mosque could be a lot older and that date could reflect the renovation of an older mosque. Awooto Eeday mosque is the neighbourhood mosque for the Shanshiyo. It was here that Sheikh Abba spent much of his day in the last quarter century, for prayer, teaching his students, and talking with people. According to his son 'Abdirahman, the mosque was built by an old woman of the Reer Sheikh Muuminow, one of the oldest Banaadiri clan and is on the site of yet an older mosque.