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The Great Mosque of Gao: Songhai's Mud-Brick Colossus
This episode explores the Great Mosque of Gao, the Songhai Empire's architectural masterpiece that rivaled Timbuktu's Sankore. Built under Askia Muhammad after his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1496, the mosque's towering mud-brick minaret and intricate toron-palm wood beams tell a story of power, faith, and engineering. We examine the mosque's layout, its role as a center of Maliki scholarship, and how it survived the Saadian invasion of 1591. Discover the rivalry between Gao and Timbuktu, the legacy of Askia Muhammad's grand vision, and the mosque's recent…
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