The Sankore Mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, became an important Islamic house of worship in the Mali Empire. During the 1200's, the Mali Empire replaced the Ghana Empire as the most powerful state in western Africa. The Mali Empire flourished until the 1400's.
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Photograph (c) Eliot Elisofon; National Museum of African Art, Eliot Elisofon; Photographic Archives, Smithsonian Institution</P>
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