OLDEST - building in Gorée - Ílle de Gorée, Senegal - Superlatives on Waymarking.com

This is the existing police station on Gorée Island.
It belongs to an island listed as a UNESCO heritage site.
It was built on the ruins of a 15th century Portuguese chapel.

As we can see in New York Times and in a plaque of the building It is the oldest building

New York Times: "Because of Goree's strategic location, it served as a stepping stone for Dutch, Portuguese and French colonial expeditions. The oldest structure is the Portuguese church, built in 1482, and used now as the police station. Nearly half the island is a maze of fortifications built by the French, some of them under Napoleon HI."

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Building:" Ici a existé une Chapelle construite Par
les navigateurs Portugais au XV Siécle
Qui a été la Première edification á Gorée
Mairie de Dorée
Ambassade de Portugal A Dakar
Fondation AMI Portugal
ASSIMAGRA"

Type of documentation of superlative status: web Location of coordinates: building Web Site: [Web Link]

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Date Logged Log User Rating   12/31/2023 Ariberna visited it