art history
The wall was originally a royal residence for the king, and it remains in its original state today. The site of rituals and cemeteries. The Great Enclosure was either the queens residence or a temple.
They were organized because the great enclosure is made of rocks that are all the same size and stacked up from the ground and it was built entirely out of curves, no lines or straight angles. Masonry techniques at the time were highly developed and organized. The people that still love here continue to recount their history through song. The Bantu are not always literate in their mother tongue. They used places of worship, and these stone buildings are assume to be used as houses of worship. The Great Mosque of Djenne shows that there are a lot of cultures in this region of Africa, and they are very proud of their culture and history. But sometimes maybe too much so because they will not let current residents change anything so they don't loose their history. This shows how much they care about their "religion" and having a place to worship.
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