Birikisu Sungbo shrine

Birikisu Sungbo shrine is an example of healthy ecosystem which forms the cornerstone of thousands of tourist enterprises and products worldwide, attracting hundreds of tourists in Abeokuta each year.
A journey to the shrine from Lagos takes about one and half hour to Ijebu Ode by car and another thirty minutes from Oke Ori by a motorcycle.
Rumours has it one of the 700 or 1000 wives King Solomon was reported to have married was Birikisu Sungbo, regarded as the Biblical Queen of Sheba. Each year both muslim and christian pilgrims come to this place to pray and honour Bilikisu Sungbo. Birikisu was believed to have supernatural powers. She was believed to have dug pits around the village with a mere needle. These pits could be found throughout Ijebu area and could have been dug to serve either as remembrance of her greatness after her death by her devoted slaves or as a source of water supply in the dry season. The pits are generally called Sungbo Rivers.
Birikisu Sungbo’s grave has been shrouded in mystery and sustained by religious curiosity at a rustic village called Oke Eri in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria.

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