Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the first public appearance of their founder ...

Thousands of members of Senegal’s Layene Sufi brotherhood gathered overnight Thursday in Dakar to mark the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, known as Mawlid, with prayers. Worshippers assembled at the ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Senegal’s Yoff neighborhood, as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the first public appearance of their founder, ...

Once a year members of the Muslim Layene community in Senegal organise a collective wedding presided over by the religious leader. The cost of getting married is dramatically reduced - with couples ...

Dressed in white robes to symbolize purity and equality before God, followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorate the first public appearance of their founder Seydina Limamou Laye in 1884 at ...

Worshippers assembled at the seaside mausoleum of Seydina Limamou Laye, the order’s founder, in the Yoff neighbourhood. Chants echoed from mosques across the capital until sunrise on Friday. The ...

Dressed in pristine white robes to symbolize purity and equality before God, worshippers filled the streets leading to Yoff’s beachside mosque on Friday. The gathering, known as “L’Appel," , marked ...