DJENNE, Mali — Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been on the ...

Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné became a market centre and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it was one of the centres for the propagation of Islam.

Thousands of Malians carrying buckets and jugs of mud joined ... world's largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in the ...

The property is an ensemble that over many years has symbolised the typical African city. It is also particularly representative ... circular or rectangular dwellings of traditional round mud bricks ...

Nearly all of the buildings in the town, including the Great Mosque, are made from sun-baked earthen bricks, which are coated with mud plaster from the river ... basis of the harmonious development of ...