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The Great Mosque of Djenne: Songhai's Mud Cathedral
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the architectural marvel of the Great Mosque of Djenne, the largest mud-brick building in the world, and uncover its deep roots in the Songhai Empire. While many know Timbuktu's Sankore, Djenne's Friday mosque stands as a testament to the empire's wealth, faith, and communal engineering. Lucas walks through its construction during the reign of Askia Muhammad, explaining how the distinctive sudano-sahelian style—with its wooden toron beams and tapered minarets—emerged from centuries of building with banco, a sun-dried mud mix that requires…
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