Baraka

Baraka or Barakah may refer to:

Places

• Baraka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a town in the eastern Congolese province of Sud-Kivu on Lake Tanganyika.
• Baraka, Gabon, a site where American missionaries from New England established a mission in 1842 on what is now Libreville
• Baraka River, Eritrea and Sudan
• Baraka School, an educational program in Kenya, featured in the film The Boys of Baraka
• Barakeh, Hama, Syria, also spelt Barakah

People

• Baraka (given name)
• Baraka (surname)
• Andres Fernandes Gonçalves, better known as Baraka (born 1986), Brazilian footballer

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Baraka (album), a 1997 album by DKV Trio
• Barakah (album), a 2016 album by Sami Yusuf

Fictional characters

• Baraka (Mortal Kombat), a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat series
• Baraka, the Ancient Name of Xilonen, a character in 2020 video game Genshin Impact

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Baraka (film), a 1992 experimental documentary film by Ron Fricke
• Baraka (novel), a 1983 novel by John Ralston Sau

Other uses

• Al-Barakah (ISIL administrative district), a self-proclaimed district and former province
• Barakah or Baraka, in Islam, the beneficent force from God that flows through the physical and spiritual spheres
• Barakah nuclear power plant, in the United Arab Emirates

See also

• Al Baraka (disambiguation)
• Barack (disambiguation)
• Barak (disambiguation)
• Barakamon, a Japanese manga series
• Barakat (disambiguation)
• Barka (disambiguation)
• Barkha (disambiguation)
• Berakhah, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
• Har Brakha, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestinian territories