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Djinguereber Mosque

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Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Djinguereber Mosque
Phone:
+223 75 33 33 81

Address:
Old Town, Timbuktu, Mali

The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali is a famous learning center of Mali built in 1327, and cited as Djingareyber or Djingarey Ber in various languages. Its design is accredited to Abu Es Haq es Saheli who was paid 200 kg of gold by Musa I of Mali, emperor of the Mali Empire. According to Ibn Khaldun, one of the best known sources for 14th century Mali, says al-Sahili was given 12,000 mithkals of gold dust for his designing and building of the djinguereber in Timbuktu. But more reasoned analysis suggests that his role, if any, was quite limited. The architectural crafts in Granada had reached their zenith by the fourteenth century, and its extremely unlikely that a cultured and wealthy poet would have had anything more than a dilettante's knowledge of the intricacies of contemporary architectural practice. Except for a small part of the northern facade, which was reinforced in the 1960s in alhore , and the minaret, also built in limestone and rendered with mud, the Djingareyber Mosque is made entirely of earth plus organic materials such as fibre, straw and wood. It has three inner courts, two minarets and twenty-five rows of pillars aligned in an east-west direction and prayer space for 2,000 people. Djinguereber is one of four madrassas composing the University of Timbuktu. It was inscribed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1988, and in 1990 was considered to be in danger due to sand encroachment. A four-year project towards the restoration and rehabilitation of the Mosque began in June 2006, and is being conducted and financed by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.On 26 February 2010, during Mawlid , a stampede at the mosque killed around 26 people and injured at least 55 others- mostly women and children.
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