The complex, including the pyramidal tomb, two flat-roofed mosque buildings, the mosque cemetery and the open-air assembly ground, was built when Gao became the capital of the Songhai Empire and after ...

the mosque cemetery and the open-air assembly ground, was built when Gao became the capital of the Songhai Empire and after Askia Mohamed had returned from Mecca and made Islam the official religion ...

Gao and Newberry were surprised to find the highly stylized Indian mosque carving had a value closer to real trees than the tree in “Cherry Blossoms,” which they had initially thought was more ...