Great Mosque of Djenné West Afica

Great Mosque of Djenné West Afica

The actual date of construction of the primary masjid in Djenné is unknown, however dates as early as 1200 and as late as 1330 are advised. The earliest document mentioning the masjid is al-Sadi’s Tarikh al-Sudan which provides the first history, presumptively from the oral tradition because it existed within the middle seventeenth century. The tarikh states that a swayer Kunburu became a Muslim and had his palace force down and also the website become a masjid. He designed another palace for himself close to the masjid on the side. His immediate successor designed the towers of the masjid whereas the subsequent swayer designed the encompassing wall.
The ruins of the first musjid as seen during a flip of the century French mailing-card.

There is no alternative written info on the good masjid till the French individual René Caillié visited Djenné in 1828 and wrote "In Jenné could be a musjid designed of earth, head by 2 large however not high towers; it's discourteously created, although terribly giant. it's abandoned to thousands of swallows, that build their nests in it. This occasions a awfully disagreeable smell, to avoid that, the custom of claiming prayers during a tiny outer court has become common

Replica in Fréjus, France (1930)