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ARCHITECTURE
The Power of writing is especially evident in the exhibition's display of one of West Africa's most remarkable accomplishments of vernacular architecture: a Mouride mosque and residential complex made entirely of straw to honor the reed pen with which one writes the Word.
 
--------------Introduction : Rise of Islam : Life of a Saint : Mass Produced Imagery : Mouride Work Ethic
---Devotional Sanctum : Healing Prayers : Architecture : Apostles : Sainted Women : Global Networks : Pilgrimage