The Great Mosque at Djenné

The very impressive and stately Great
Mosque at Djelme is the product of
architectural influences originating in a
vast area that ranges from present-day
Ghana to North-Afcica, to the Maghreb.
As a hypothesis that still needs confirmation by more research, it is now
thought that the exuberant plastic and
sculptural qualities of the pagan sanctuaries for the ancestor cult in the south
were a main source of inspiration for the
Dyula Mosque, and this in its tum became one of the most important models
for the mosques of the Djenne type.