Sankoré Madrasah

Sankoré Madrasah

Photo: Félix Dubois (1862-1945) · Public domain

Year

1327

Type

building

Founded as a mosque in the fourteenth or early fifteenth century, the Sankoré Madrasah grew under the Songhai Empire's Askia dynasty into one of the most influential centres of Islamic scholarship in West Africa. The historian Leo Africanus …

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