Great+Mosque+of+Djenné


 * G ****REAT MOSQUE OF DJENNÉ by Irene Pérez **

**__ 1.- DESCRIPTION __** = = ||
 * **Built: Year of construction Compl ****eted in 1906 1907 **
 * =Location (City, Country and Continent): **Mali, Africa **=
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 * **Type of structure:** **This structure is a mass structure**
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 * =**Short information about the structure (history, dimensions...) **=

**The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud brick or adobe building in the world. The mosque is located in the city of Djenné, Mali on the flood plain of the Bani River. The first mosque on the site was built around the 13th century, but the current structure dates from 1907. As well as being the centre of the community of Djenné, it is one of the most famous landmarks in Africa. Along with the "Old Towns of Djenné" it was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1988.**


 * __2.- WHAT ARE THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OR USES OF THE STRUCTURE? __**

**There are strict and detailed requirements **
= = ===**<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">in Sunni //fiqh// for a place of worship to be considered a masjid, with places that do not meet these requirements regarded as //musallas// There are stringent restrictions on the uses of the area formally demarcated as the masjid (which is often a small portion of the larger complex), and, in the //Sharia//, after an area is formally designated as a masjid, it remains so until the Last Day. **=== ===**<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The mosque serves as a place where Muslims can come together for //salah// (prayer) (Arabic: صلاة‎, //ṣalāt//) as well as a center for information, education, and dispute settlement. The imam leads the prayer. **=== ===**<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They have developed significantly from the open-air spaces that were the Quba Mosque and Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in the 7th century. Many mosques have elaborate domes, minarets, and prayer halls. **=== ===**<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Large mosques sometimes play a political role as well. In Islamic countries like Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq (after 2003), political subjects are preached by imams at Friday congregations on a regular basis. In other Islamic countries, imams are usually banned from mentioning political issues. **===


 * (you can add a video from youtube to show the main uses or pictures...) **


 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">3.- WHAT DIFFERENT PARTS ARE THERE? Elements of the structure... __**

===**<span style="color: #38f5f5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The mosque is built on a platform measuring about 75 m x 75 m (245 ft x 245 ft) that is raised by 3 metres above the level of the marketplace. The platform is accessed by 6 sets of stairs, each decorated with pinnacles. The main entrance is on the northern side of the building. The outer walls of the G **=== = =

===**<span style="color: #38f5f5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The prayer wall or qibla of the Great Mosque faces east towards Mecca and overlooks the city marketplace. The qibla is dominated by three large, box-like towers or minarets jutting out from the main wall. The cone shaped spires or pinnacles at the top of each minaret are topped with ostrich eggs. The eastern wall is about a meter in thickness and is strengthened on the exterior by eighteen pilaster like buttresses, each of which is topped by a pinnacle. The corners are formed by rectangular shaped buttresses decorated with toron and topped by pinnacles. **===

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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">4.- WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS MADE OF? __**
 * <span style="color: #616125; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 9.5pt;">Before I read the information I thought that the Great Mosque of Djenné is made up of sand. **
 * <span style="color: #616125; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 9.5pt;">This is what I saw in wikipedia: **
 * <span style="color: #c9c918; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Great Mosque Of Djenné it was rebuilt using adobe. It is today the largest adobe structure in the world:The Great Mosque is built on a raised plinth platform of rectangular sun-dried mud bricks that are held together by mud mortar and plastered over with mud. The walls vary in thickness between sixteen and twenty-four inches, depending upon their height. These massive walls are necessary in order to bear the weight of the tall structure and also provide insulation from the sun’s heat. During the day, the walls gradually warm up from the outside; at night, they cool down again. The mosque’s prayer hall, with ninety wooden pillars supporting its ceiling, can contain as many as 3000 people. This helps the interior of the mosque to stay cool all day long. The Great Mosque also has roof vents with ceramic caps. These caps, made by the town’s women, can be removed at night to ventilate the interior spaces. **


 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">5.- STRESSES IN THE STRUCTURE __****<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">: ** tension, compression, torsion, bending, shearing




 * (you __have to add a picture__ of the stresses that affects the main elements of the structure!) **

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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">6.- STABILITY, RIGIDITY AND RESISTANCE __**
 * **<span style="background-color: white; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 9.5pt;">This structure is made rigid by : its bricks that are made up of adove ( sand who was placed in the sund) and it is a rigid material **
 * **<span style="background-color: white; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 9.5pt;">This structure is made stable by :a big, stable base **
 * **<span style="background-color: white; color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 9.5pt;">This structure is made resistant : its bricks **


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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">9.- CURIOSITIES __**

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 * __<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">10.- PERSONAL COMMENTS __**


 * <span style="color: #d313d3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I had a really good time doing this project and I learned a lot of things; the stresses of the structure ... **
 * <span style="color: #d313d3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like a lot my building because is very strange ****<span style="color: #d313d3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and interesting, till now I had no hearth nothing abouth The Great Mosque of Djenné. **
 * <span style="color: #d313d3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It was a quite hard work because in the internet there isn´t much information of this structure. **

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