The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu
A mud masterpiece that townsfolk re-plaster every year
Returning from his pilgrimage to Mecca, Mansa Musa brought back the Andalusian poet and architect al-Sahili. Around 1327 he built a great mud-brick mosque in Timbuktu, reportedly paid 200 kg of gold. Djinguereber became the emblem of a city of scholars and manuscripts. Its earthen walls are still re-plastered by the whole town every year, and it has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1988.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — 18 years earlier
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — 12 years earlier
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — 10 years later
- 1347–1351 Black Death — 20 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 10 years later
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 2 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Mansa Musa (aged 47)
- Orhan (aged 46)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 39)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 39)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 23)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 22)
- Edward III (aged 15)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 13)
- Charles IV (aged 11)
- Murad I (aged 1)