A majestic religious structure, the Bayero University Kano (BUK) Central Mosque routinely draws thousands of worshippers during Friday prayer time. This is the main campus of BUK and houses most of the faculties of the university and the university Senate.
The Central Mosque spacious building that can accommodate hundreds of worshippers. Partitioned into male and female parts. It contains sanitary toilets with water supply.
Bayero University has evolved from a small college running Advanced Level training programmes to one of the respected Nigerian Universities, recognized beyond the shores of the country.
The seed of Bayero University Kano was the Ahmadu Bello College set up in 1960, located within the School for Arabic Studies (SAS), in the old city of Kano. With the establishment of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1962, it was renamed Abdullahi Bayero College. In 1964 it moved to a temporary site at the old Kano Airport Hotel, admitting its first set of ten undergraduate students for a B.A. degree programme of Ahmadu Bello University.
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- Bayero University, Kano Central Mosque
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- Islamic faithfuls, Scholars, Artists, Architects
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- Very Safe
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- PMB 3011, Gwarzo Road Kano, Nigeria.
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