Hamdia Traoré’s exhibition at the Block Museum features portraits of marabouts, Muslim community leaders, from Djenné, Mali. The exhibit functions as a living archive of an evolving religious ...

DJENNE – Thousands of Malians carrying buckets and jugs of mud joined the annual replastering of the world's largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the ...

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DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Thousands of Malians carrying buckets and jugs of mud joined the annual replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the ...

DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been on the ...

DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Djenne’s mosque requires a new layer of mud each year before the start of the rainy season in June, or the building will fall into disrepair. DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Thousands of ...

DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Thousands of Malians joined the replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Thousands of Malians ...