They'd also broken open a sealed door on the 15th-century Sidi Yahya mosque, which local tradition ... (Jeppie also reports that, so far, Timbuktu's great collections of Islamic manuscripts ...

The fate of the Sankore mosque is unclear. According to UNESCO, Djingareyber, together with the Sankore and Sidi Yahya mosques, are known as the three great mosques of the city. Djingareyber was ...

and an image of builders plastering the Great Mosque of Djenné, a Unesco world heritage site about 500km (310 miles) south of Timbuktu. Image source, Brian David Melnyk/ Google Arts and Culture ...

In April, 2012, Timbuktu, once the great spiritual capital of Africa ... thanks to its thriving mosque and university, an oasis of learning and literacy. Founded between the eleventh and twelfth ...

Timbuktu is a World Heritage site ... "The two tombs are adjacent to the western wall of the great mosque and the Islamists have hoes [and] chisels - they are hitting the mausoleums which are ...

Yet Timbuktu's isolation has become a bit less ... thumb through it and stare in amazement at an illustration of the Great Mosque of Medina. It's the only drawing, besides geometrical patterns ...

It has great regional importance ... Djingarey Ber is feeling its age. Timbuktu has suffered a slow decline over the centuries, and the mosque, too, has gradually deteriorated.

We are shot at a great deal. This historic and cultural journey was a welcome change. But Timbuktu was only our ... There’s magic in the Djenné’s grand mosque too. The main mosque is ...

"Currently the Islamists are busy destroying two tombs of Timbuktu's great Djingareyber mosque. They are shooting in the air to chase away the crowd, to scare them," one witness said earlier as ...