In Mali. The world's largest adobe building, built in 1907 on a site where mosques have stood since the 13th century.
A postcard showing the mosque in 1910.
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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