Tongo Hills and Tengzuk Shrines

01/03/2024

2024 Golob festival ongoing

01/03/2024

The Golob festival is ongoing in Tengzuk. Try and visit us and enjoy this beautiful dance

09/09/2023

CHIANA SHS (CHIANASSCO) visit our site and it was full of excitement and enjoyment.
Thank you CHIANA SHS for passing through and I hope you people will not regret for coming to Tongo hills and Tengzuk shrines

25/06/2023

Come and learn something small about the Talensi tradition and culture and also more about the Tengzuk shrines
If you need this just come to Tongo hills and Tengzuk shrines, located at Tengzuk in the Upper East region of Ghana

29/05/2023

What are you waiting for, come to Tongo hills and Tengzuk shrines and experience the beauty of nature

07/04/2023

Tongo Hills to the world
What are you waiting for?
Come and enjoy the beauty of nature

06/04/2023

06/04/2023

Tengzuk is a community surrounded by dramatic granite rock formations and natural caves with rock shelters. The first school in the community was located in one of these rock shelters. Two types of indigenous architectural style are associated with the Tongo-Tengzuk community. These are the flat roofed mud houses solely permitted in the settlement areas close to the earth goddess known as Nyoo and thatch mud houses permitted in other settlement areas. The architecture blends beautifully with the natural environment. The rationale behind the mud roofing was to avoid the risk of gushing fire from the thatch roofs extending to the shrine to cause the displeasure of the earth goddess.
The resultant punishments from the goddess in the face of unplanned burning in the shrine are drought, poor crop harvest and outbreak of diseases in the entire Talensi land. However, modernization has distorted the local architectural style of the people in the community. Galvanized sheets are now used for roofing by almost ninety percent of the settlements closed to the earth goddess. In spite of this current situation, all the houses within the chief’s settlement area and its surrounding settlements continue to maintain the tradition of flat roof architectural style.