Mosque · Marawi, Lanao del Sur
Marawi Grand Mosque
Marawi's great mosque, damaged in the 2017 siege and rebuilt by 2021 to hold 20,000 worshippers.
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Memory · Marawi, Lanao del Sur
Camp Keithley
Also known as Camp Marahui.
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The place
Memory in Marawi, Lanao del Sur
The site of an American army post of 1903 in Marawi, now being excavated by archaeologists.
Memory
Traced to its sources since the guide was written.
Safety in Lanao del Sur
The security picture here is more variable than in Cotabato City or Tawi-Tawi, and it moves. Marawi itself is visited, but travel is best arranged through local contacts, the city tourism office, or MSU, and some outlying municipalities are best left off an itinerary without current local advice. This is the area where asking on the ground matters most, and where a plan made from a distance is least reliable.
About this place
After the Battle of Bayang in May 1902 and Pershing's campaigns around Lake Lanao, American forces set up a post called Camp Marahui at the foot of Signal Hill in 1903. Later that year Meranaw warriors attacked the camp, killing several American soldiers, among them Private Fernando Guy Keithley. In 1905 it was renamed Camp Keithley, the first military camp named after a private. A monument put up in 1939 was removed during the Japanese occupation in 1942.
The Camp Keithley Archaeological Project of the University of the Philippines School of Archaeology, with the Bangsamoro heritage commission and the tourism ministry, dug 4 trenches in Barangay Datu Saber, looking for old settlements, kota (forts), colonial military structures and conflict sites. Finds shown in Marawi in June 2026 included earthenware, obsidian and chert, glass and metal objects; the project hopes they will also shed light on Meranaw life before Islam.
Before you go
- The excavation is a research site; see the finds through exhibits rather than entering the trenches.
Where you’ll be
Marawi, Lanao del Sur
Sources
Crafts made in Marawi
Every craft of the region
textileMalong a landapThe malong a landap is the Maranao tube skirt made of broad plain-coloured panels joined by woven langkit bands. Handwoven landap are costly and worn at social functions, and their colours carry rank: yellow for sultans, red for warriors and green for imams.Hiart · CC0Photo by Hiart, CC0. Open the source file.- textileLangkitLangkit are narrow, multicoloured woven strips that join and decorate the panels of a Maranao malong. A trained eye could once tell which part of the Lake Lanao region a person came from by the patterns of their malong and langkit.Hiart · CC0Photo by Hiart, CC0. Open the source file.
carvingTorogan panolongPanolong are the large wing-like carved beam-ends that jut from the front of a torogan, the Maranao royal house. Modelled on the prows of Maranao boats, they make the house look like a royal vessel and are carved with the naga sea serpent and other okir.Nikka Cunom · CC BY 2.0Photo by Nikka Cunom, CC BY 2.0. Open the source file.
Where to sleep in Lanao del Sur
- No photo of this hotel yet
hotel
Ranaw Business Hotel
Marawi
Business hotel used for MSSD events in Marawi, October 2026
mssd.barmm.gov.ph · as of 2026-10 - No photo of this hotel yet
hotel
Samsara Palace Hotel and Event
Mapandi Bridge, Lilod Saduc, Marawi City
Hotel and events venue listed by the Bangsamoro Parliament, July 2026
parliament.bangsamoro.gov.ph · as of 2026-07 - No photo of this hotel yet
hotel
Santorini Hotel, Garden Cafe and Events Place
Heaven Road, Marawi City
Hotel with a garden cafe and events place, listed by the Bangsamoro Parliament, November 2024
parliament.bangsamoro.gov.ph · as of 2024-11 - No photo of this resort yet
resort
Lake View Resort
Timbangalan, Marawi City
Lakeside resort above Lake Lanao; hosted an MPOS livelihood training, May 2024
mpos.bangsamoro.gov.ph · as of 2024-05
Named where a public source names them; no rates or availability. Ask the place directly.
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MSU Golf Course
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Best: December to April are the least rainy months at Marawi (about 140 to 185 mm a month) and May to July the wettest (330 to 415 mm)
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Kilometer Zero of Mindanao
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