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Bani, the City of Nine Mosques

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Bani, the City of Nine Mosques

Bani, the city of the 9 mosques in Burkina, is en route to Gao from Ouagadougou, in the east. The special thing about this town is that it is full of mud mosques. These mosques have been built by the "enlightened" ones, or so we are told! The man who today is the imam of the people, began to dream about what God told him to do; he had to build a large mosque, and so he did. But he only had the help of the common people, no architectural knowledge, no plans, but only by pure intuition and dreams... Slowly the Grand Mosque was erected, with strong pillars and a large terrace .... Then he continued to build other mosques, 9 in total ....

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