Tag: Khoja Travellers

  • 20. An Entry for Refuge: the Khoja caravanserai door

    20. An Entry for Refuge: the Khoja caravanserai door

    By Taushif Kara (@taushif) Of the many ornate wooden doors spread throughout Zanzibar’s ‘stone town’ – and there are many – the one I find the most intriguing, and indeed the most beautiful, is the door to the Khoja caravanserai, built in 1892. The door itself opens to a musafarkhana, a hostel of sorts, meant…