Cape Town’s Muslim community has been here since the 1650s. Its first lasting settlement was Shaykh Yusuf’s household at Zandvliet in 1694, its first mosque the Auwal Masjid on Dorp Street in 1794, and its oldest neighbourhood is Bo-Kaap. Today the community lives across the whole city.
The section is in three parts. Start here says who the community is and what Bo-Kaap is. The story in order runs from 1694 to today as a timeline; the long gaps are real and are drawn to scale. Living Cape Town covers people, food, language and the community beyond Bo-Kaap.
Every chapter ends with a place you can visit and the sources it rests on.
Start here
Who the community is and where Bo-Kaap fits, before the dates.
