Kenyan frontier mosques are modest structures unlike Gulf opulence

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The adhan, the call to prayer, filled the dark sky, summoning us to the nearby mosque. It was not one of those opulent mosques with golden domes and gallant minarets reaching toward the heavens, the type of prayer houses you see in oil-rich Arab nations. This was a modest structure, a “makeshift mosque,” as a companion commented, built into the gate that wrapped around the Wajir Palace Hotel. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 119