Today is: 10-03-2024
Taqah (Arabic: طاقة) is a coastal town in the Dhofar governorate, in southwestern Oman.
Approx. 2 km after the western entrance to the town there is a mosque named Shaikh Al-Afeef(Arabic: الشيخ العفيف). In its cemetery, Mazoon al-Mashani, the mother of Sultan Qaboos, is buried. Under identical marble gravestones, an uncle and a grandfather of the Sultans are buried