8 Eerie Works Of Architecture

From afar the overall impression isn't exactly welcoming. The Djenné Mosque isn't the first mosque to be built on the site overlooking the market city Djenné: despite its ancient vibe the current building dates to somewhere in the early 1900s. The mosque holds the distinction of being the largest mud brick building in the world: suck it, Djinguereber Mosque.

It's very difficult to say anything overly negative about the world famous UNESCO World Heritage Site because so much about it is actually quite lovely. Like how the original mosque was constructed in 13th century by a local ruler who destroyed his own palace to build it, or the fact that the community regularly re-plaster the current site to maintain its splendour in a festival called “la fête de creppisage”.

But it is hard to overlook the fact that it looks like it's covered in spikes. The “spikes” are actually exposed beam ends which can act as helpful scaffolding during the re-plastering festival. Lovely.