Nairobi–Mombasa Road Nairobi–Mombasa Road The Nairobi–Mombasa Road, also Mombasa–Nairobi Road or A109 Road (Kenya) is the main road between Nairobi, Kenya's capital and largest city and Mombasa, the country's largest port city. The road is a component of the Northern Corridor. The road starts in the city of Nairobi, at the confluence of "Langata Road", "Uhuru Highway" and "Lusaka Road", immediately west of "DHL House". It continues in a general southeasterly direction, through seven Kenya Counties to end in the city of Mombasa at the confluence of "Digo Road", "Langoni Road" and "Abdel Nasser Road", a total distance of about . The
Mombasa c. 1300. The Mandhry Mosque, built in 1570, has a minaret that contains a regionally specific ogee arch. This demonstrates that Swahili architecture was an indigenous African product and disproves assertions that non-African Muslims brought stone architecture to the Swahili Coast. During the pre-modern period, Mombasa was an important centre for the trade in spices, gold, and ivory. Its trade links reached as far as the Indian subcontinent and modern-day China and oral historians today can still recall this period of local history. History shows that there were trade links between Mombasa and Cholas of South India. Throughout the early