page_title: Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal / Cityscape / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: This media shows a South African Protected Site with SAHRA file reference 9/2/415/0022See also: External entry in South African Heritage Resource Agency database. English: Soofi Mosque in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This mosque is name Soofi after Hazrath Soofie Saheb
context_page_description: Ladysmith is a city in the Uthukela District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It lies 230 kilometres north-west of Durban and 365 kilometres south-east of Johannesburg. Important industries in the area include food processing, textiles, and tyre production. Motor vehicle tyres are produced by "Sumitomo Rubber South Africa" in the nearby township of Steadville.
  Ladysmith is the seat for both the Alfred Duma Local Municipality and Uthukela District Municipality.
  In 1900, the unincorporated town of Oyster Harbour on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, was renamed Ladysmith by James Dunsmuir, in honour of the British lifting the siege of Ladysmith in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
context_section_description: The Soofi Mosque on the banks of the Klip River was originally built some time between 1895 and 1910, but it was greatly extended in the 1960s.
  Other buildings of interest are the Siege Museum, originally built in 1884 as a marketplace and the Town Hall, damaged by Boer artillery during the Second Boer War.
caption: Soofi Mosque
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