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| 2274 Nouakchott: Grand Mosque; Moroccan Mosque; Friday Mosque. |
The people of Mauritania are nearly all adherents of Sunni Islam of Maliki school of jurisprudence, influenced with Sufism, and because of the ethnic and tribal divisions in the country, religion is seen by the government as essential for national unity. Since independence in 1960, Mauritania has been an Islamic republic, and the Constitutional Charter of 1985 declares Islam the state religion and sharia the law of the land. It is one of thirteen countries in the world which punishes atheism by death.
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