Doumbou Camii, Doumbou, Mali

Doumbou Camii, Doumbou, Mali

Doumbou Mosque, Doumbou, Mali

Dougouradji Camii, Dougouradji, Mali

Dougouradji Camii, Dougouradji, Mali

Dougouradji Mosque, Dougouradji, Mali

Douegoussou Camii, Douegoussou, Mali

Douegoussou Camii, Douegoussou, Mali

Douégoussou Mosque, Douégoussou, Mali

Dongo Camii, Dongo, Mali

Dongo Camii, Dongo, Mali

Dongo Mosque, Dongo, Mali

Doua Camii, Doua, Mali

Doua Camii, Doua, Mali

Doua Mosque, Doua, Mali

Donbira Camii, Donbira, Mali

Donbira Camii, Donbira, Mali

Donbira Mosque, Donbira, Mali

Domed Mosque, Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania

Domed Mosque With Nine Bays at Kilwa, Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania

East façade of mosque, note central dome with octagonal pillar flanked by barrell vaults 

on each side.

To the southwest of the Great Mosque of Kilwa was the nine bay Small Domed Mosque, which was built in the mid-fifteenth century and is now only partially standing. Though built two-hundred years later, the Small Domed Mosque mimics the Great Mosque's thirteenth century vault and dome addition. The nine bays are arranged in a square, three bays long and three aisles wide. The central bay is larger than the rest through a lengthening of the middle bays and a widening of the central aisle.

Djinguinare Camii, Djinguinare, Mali

Djinguinare Camii, Djinguinare, Mali

Djinguinare Mosque, Djinguinare, Mali

Doma Camii, Doma, Mali

Doma Camii, Doma, Mali

Doma Mosque, Doma, Mali

Djingareyber Mosque, Timbuktu, Mali

  View Along The East Façade

Djingareyber Mosque Restoration 
Djingarey Ber, 'the Great Mosque', is Timbuktu's oldest monument and its major landmark. 

Located at the western corner of the old town, the mosque is almost entirely built in banco (raw earth), which is used for mud bricks and rendering.

Wood poles are left in the building to stabilise it and 

to use as footholds when re-surfacing the mosque

The exceptions are the northern wall, reinforced in the 1960s in alhore (limestone blocks, also widely used in the rest of the town), and the minaret, also built in limestone and rendered with mud.