Mansa Musa commissions the Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu
1337
The Malian emperor hired the Andalusian architect al-Sahili to build a great mud-brick mosque in his Saharan trading city. The Djinguereber became the crown of Timbuktu's skyline and the nucleus of a scholarly quarter that would house one of the world's great manuscript collections for the next three centuries, attracting students from across the Islamic world.
In context
Also in 1337 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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