Al Atiq Mosque, Juba

Al Atiq Mosque is a historic Muslim place of worship in Hai Jallaba, one of the neighbourhoods associated with the early development of modern Juba. The documentary project Juba in the Making records that this part of the city grew from the 1920s as foreign merchants settled there in cooperation with the Anglo-Egyptian colonial authorities.

The traders included people from northern Sudan as well as Lebanese, Syrians, Greeks and Cypriots, giving the quarter a distinctive commercial character. Within that setting, the project states that Al Atiq Mosque was built in 1939 for Muslim traders who needed a place to pray while staying in Juba.

That specific date and purpose make the mosque an important surviving reference point for the history of Islam and commerce in the capital. The source also notes that Hai Jallaba remains a commercial part of Juba today, although it does not provide dependable current information about the mosque’s visiting arrangements, administration, prayer timetable or architectural alterations.

Those fields are therefore left blank rather than inferred. Al Atiq is included in this curated dataset for its documented historical significance to Juba’s Muslim community and urban development. No reliable source reviewed connects it with a miracle, apparition, healing cult, saint’s tomb or comparable shrine tradition. Its sacred significance is its longstanding function as a mosque and its place in the recorded history of the city’s Muslim population.