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The Dahira is located in the outskirts of Ladispoli (Rome). The Dahira hosts Cheick Moustapha Mbacké and his family. The Cheick is a direct descendant of Serign Ahmadou Bamba, founder of the Muridiyya brotherhood in the 19th Century.
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For days, dozens of volunteers arrange food and supplies to host hundreds
of devotees coming from all over Italy.
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For days, dozens of volunteers arrange food and supplies for hundreds of devotees coming from all part of Italy.
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The Ladispoli Dahira it is also open as a Mosque to all Muslims and people coming from other countries, even if they are not Murid or Senegalese.
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The Muridiyya has also an ultra-orthodox wing called Baye Fall, founded by Cheikh Ibrahima Fall, a devotee close to Ahmadou Bamba. The Baye Fall abdicates material goods, refuses violence and individual life. The disciples live in a structured supportive community and consider work an instrument of redemption fundamental for their spiritual life.
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The Muridiyya has also an ultra-orthodox wing called Baye Fall, founded by Cheikh Ibrahima Fall, a devotee close to Ahmadou Bamba. The Baye Fall abdicates material goods, refuses violence and individual life. The disciples live in a structured supportive community and consider work an instrument of redemption fundamental for their spiritual life.
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The Baye Fall are famous for they ability to pray walking in circle for several hours or even days, singing all together to a rhythm which allows them to enter a kind of mental trance.
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The Baye Fall devotees are famous for they ability to pray walking in circle for several hours or even days, singing all together to a rhythm which allows them to enter a kind of mental trance.
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The Baye Fall devotees are famous for they ability to pray walking in circle for several hours or even days, singing all together to a rhythm which allows them to enter a kind of mental trance.
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Cheick Moustapha Mbacké, descendent of Ahmadou Bamba, founder of Muridiyya, and marabout of the Ladispoli's Dahira.
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Gran Magal's celebration, that celebrates the Ahmadou Bamba’s exile return in Senegal from Gabon (1923). Ladispoli, Rome.
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After years of activities, the number of devotees at the Ladispoli’s Dahira has increased. For this reason, the community has decided to rent a bigger space in the town outskirts to host the large number of participants during the Gran Magal celebrations.