The most beautiful religious buildings Timbuktu

The visit of the mosque was forbidden to the public when the guide was updated. This mosque, built in 1325, is the oldest in the city. It was built by an Andalusian architect and poet, Es Saheli, on the orders of Kankou Moussa as he returned from his pilgrimage to Mecca.

Built during the period of the Empire of Mali. It is said that it was an Berber woman who built her. She wanted to do it in the image of La Kaâba (the house of God), based in Mecca. During the th and th centuries, the mosque housed the famous university of Sankoré.

Built around 1400, it is the best maintained of the three major mosques in Timbuktu.