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After Prayers at the Great Mosque of Djenné

A multiethnic mix of Muslim worshipers file out of Djenné’s Great Mosque after Friday morning prayers - Niger River inland delta, central Mali, West Africa. High resolution Noritsu Koki film scan, Asahi Pentax SP Spotmatic, (SMC Pentax Zoom 45~125mm f/4), circa 1976.

 

The mosque is considered the world’s largest adobe building and one of the greatest achievements of Sudano-Sahelian architecture, unique to the semi-arid Sahel zone that stretches across northern Africa just south of an encroaching Sahara.

 

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Uploaded on February 5, 2022
Taken circa 1976