A street vendor sells images of local Mouride religious leaders, including the order's founder, Amadou Bamba, near Senegal's Great Mosque of Touba on February 23, 2012. A street vendor sells ...

Image Pilgrims wearing masks prayed inside the Grand Mosque in Touba during this year ... time overruling the Mourides, who wield great power in Senegal, a country of about 16 million people.

Eleven people were killed and seven others injured when a three-storey building collapsed in Senegal's second biggest city of ...

The leader of Senegal's richest and most powerful Islamic brotherhood ... Thousands of mourners later converged on the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Touba, 200km (125 miles) east of the capital, ...

birds twittering) ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: Senegal, on the west coast of Africa ... the direction to Mecca. The Great Mosque of Touba was built to his specifications. It's almost noon solar time.

Pilgrims walk to the Great Mosque of Touba during the Grand Magal of Mourides ... involving teachers and students not just from inside Senegal but also from neighbouring countries such as Gambia ...

Elhaji Cisse was walking home after praying at the mosque Friday ... Mouride brotherhood, Senegal’s most influential religious order, called on people in the city of Touba, the brotherhood ...

He died in 1927. The holy city of Touba, founded by Bamba in 1888, has grown to be Senegal's second-largest after Dakar, with some 1.5 million inhabitants. The mosque will be inaugurated at 1400 ...

Today we look at Senegal’s Touba, the cradle of Mouridism, which has long had a complex relationship with the political sphere. At around 1:30am on 24 June 2016, Karim Wade savoured his first moments ...