The Maldives Heritage Survey team has completed work on the island of Gaafaru, Kaafu Atoll. The island has been home to two coral-stone mosques. The larger of them (Bodu Miskiyy) was demolished more than thirty years ago. The team has, however, been able to sketch out a reconstruction of the floor plan of the now-lost building from its ruins and in with members of the local community.
The sole remaining coral stone mosque on the island is Kuda Miskiyy – which currently serves as the island’s only mosque for women. While documenting this structure we discovered a date inscribed into one of its beams: 1269 AH (= 1853 CE). Parts of the earlier structure have, however, been renovated in 2002.
15 March 2019