WORLD LANDMARKS · 1907
Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali
The present mosque, often called the largest mud-brick building in the world, was built in 1907 on the site of earlier ones. Djenné was a centre of trade and Islamic learning for centuries.
The story, as a puzzle
A mosque replastered every year.
Every year, the whole town turns out to re-plaster the great mud-brick mosque of an old trading city in the inland delta of a West African river. Pin it.
Where it is
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