Dünya'nın Bütün Camileri: Seku Amadu's Mosque

Seku Amadu's mosque from the southwest as it looked in 1895.

From Félix Dubois' Timbuctoo: the mysterious.

Ten years before René Caillié’s visit, the Fulani leader Seku Amadu had launched his jihad and conquered the town. Seku Amadu appears to have disapproved of the existing mosque and allowed it to fall into disrepair. This would have been the building that Caillié saw. Seku Amadu had also closed all the small neighbourhood mosques. Between 1834 and 1836, Seku Amadu built a new mosque to the east of the existing mosque on the site of the former palace. The new mosque was a large, low building lacking any towers or ornamentation.
French forces led by Louis Archinard captured Djenné in April 1893. Soon after, the French journalist Félix Dubois visited the town and described the ruins of the original mosque. At the time of his visit, the interior of the ruined mosque was being used as a cemetery. In his book, Timbuctoo: the mysterious, Dubois provides a plan and a drawing as to how he imagined the mosque looked before being abandoned

GREAT MOSQUE OF DJENNE, DJENNE (English)

· Djenne Ulu Camii, (Türkçe)

· Cultural Significance

· Design

· The Present Mosque

· Seku Amadu's Mosque

· The First Mosque

· Great Mosque of Djenné

· Pictures Of Great Mosque of Djenné

· Djenne Ulu Camii, Mali - VİDEO