Dakar Seaside Mosque

Two slender towers rise above the coastal neighborhood, their pale warm forms crowned with green domes that echo the turquoise of the Atlantic stretching behind them. The view looks out across the rust-red earth and low rooftops of Dakar, where scattered green trees punctuate the ochre ground before giving way to the full breadth of ocean. Bright afternoon light falls evenly across the scene, leaving the arched colonnades of the main hall in soft rose shadow while the twin minarets catch the full brightness of a wide West African sky. Billowing clouds drift above the horizon, their white shapes rhyming with the pale towers below.