The Timbuktu mosque has nine rows of square pillars, providing prayer space for 2,000 people. Cordova’s mosque is supported by similar rows of pillars supporting graceful Moorish arches.

Built by the RICHEST Man Who EVER Lived: Djinguereber Mosque. Posted: May 6, ... but Djinguereber Mosque in the heart of Timbuktu, Mali, is made entirely of earth, fibre, ...

Timbuktu, the fabled desert city where retreating Muslim extremists destroyed ancient manuscripts, was a center of Islamic learning hundreds of years before Columbus landed in the Americas ...

Faith and study Built with mud bricks by the great Mali emperor Mansa Musa, the 14th-century Djinguereber mosque is Timbuktu’s oldest standing building.

The famous mosque at Sankore, part of Timbuktu's medieval university. The mosque's sanctuary was proportioned to match the Kaaba at Mecca, which had been measured with a rope during a pilgrimage.

The Sankore Mosque (pyramidal building in background) is built of mud with an embedded wooden framework. Construction began in 1324.

Amid the squalor rises a bright yellow stucco mosque, built recently by Saudi Wahhabists and topped by a 30-foot-high minaret. It is by far the best-constructed new building in Timbuktu.

Timbuktu, the fabled desert ... linked fighters who set ablaze a state-of-the-art library built with South African funding ... mud-walled buildings including an iconic mosque, Timbuktu is a U.N ...

Malian emperors built grand mosques in the city, and the Arab traveler Ibn Battuta visited in 1353, confirming Timbuktu's importance to Mali and trans-Saharan trade. But Caillié was disappointed.

The famous mosque at Sankore, part of Timbuktu's medieval university. The mosque's sanctuary was proportioned to match the Kaaba at Mecca, which had been measured with a rope during a pilgrimage.

Foreign Policy: Timbuktu, Lost City Foreign Policy's Peter Chilson gives a short history of the ancient, iconic Malian city and explains why it now faces imminent destruction. Opinion ...