Alfonso Navarro Táppero
Mosques in Niger
We returned to the river "traveler", the great Niger to discover from the deck of our pinnace hidden architecture, popular, humble perishable and out of the earth, merges with the terroir of that seems to emerge and form beautiful fairytale castles suggestive as Mosques. The architecture is actually hidden because it is tough to see it from the banks of the river. It is all among the lush vegetation covering the banks and there are some timidly slender minerets, so it is only in the case of the most remarkable structures. Architecture is popular here because the inhabitants of the small villages were the ones to erect these small buildings.
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