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hopePlate 026 · Djenné, Mali

Great Mosque of Djenné

The largest mud-brick building on earth, replastered every year by a whole town.

1907 (present) · Ismaila Traoré / guild of masons · Africa

The chamber score

Jarabi

Traditional Mandé / kora · Mali

The largest mud-brick mosque on earth. The kora is the same material, plucked.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO mosque of Djenné, the summit of Sudano-Sahelian architecture.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Great Mosque of Djenné through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Great Mosque of Djenné was rebuilt as something else?

As frustrationAs fearAs desireAs techAs sustainability

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.

Same feeling, other stone