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Bobo Dioulasso Grand Mosque

This mosque in Burkina Faso is over a century old. It has similar structural designs like the Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu. 

The clay mosque’s protruding timbers were a deliberate design to make room for workers to re-plaster the building with more clay with time.

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The building which represents traditional Sudano-Sahelian architecture has undergone some renovations and was initially built with only clay and timber. Now cement has been introduced in its re-plastering.