In The Malay Quarter ,
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Notes : Ruth Prowse’s painting provides perceptive insight into Cape Town life in the first half of the twentieth century. A champion for the preservation of Cape cultural heritage, Prowse used her art to capture a now bygone era in the Cape.Prowse captures the Mosque Shafee and the flat roofed, pastel coloured houses which have come to characterise the Bo-Kaap – one of the oldest surviving residential neighbourhoods in South Africa. The Mosque, established in 1859, still stands today on the slopes of Signal Hill at the corner of Chiappini and Helligar street. In the background, Lion’s Head towers over the minaret of the mosque.Earlier this year, nineteen new National Heritage sites were listed in the Bo-Kaap area. This 160-year old Mosque Shafee is amongst them.
Lisa Truter
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