Tomb of Askia
World Heritage
Mali
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The Mausoleum of Askia is a pyramid-shaped building, 17 metres high, built in 1495 by the Songhai Emperor Askia Muhammad in his capital Gao. It bears witness to the power and wealth of an empire that flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries through its control of trans-Saharan trade, especially in salt and gold. It is also an example of the great tradition of earthen architecture in the West African Sahel. The complex, which includes a pyramid-shaped mausoleum, two flat-roofed mosque buildings, a mosque cemetery and an open-air assembly ground, was built when Gao became the capital of the Songhai Empire, after Askia Muhammad had returned from Mecca and established Islam as the state religion of the empire.
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| image | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Askia.jpg |
| executive body | Tomb of Askia |
| office held by head of the organization | http://g.co/kg/m/06p5zn |
| Commons category | Tomb of Askia |
| inception | 1495-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| coordinate location | Point(-0.044444 16.289722) |
| start time | 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| area | 4.24 |
| height | 17 |
| World Heritage criteria | World Heritage selection criterion (ii) |
| World Heritage criteria | Larousse Encyclopedia online |
| instance of | tomb |
| of | Muhammed Ture |
| start time | 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| official name | مدفن أسكيا |
| official name | Tomb of Askia |
| official name | Tumba de los Askia |
| official name | Tombeau des Askia |
| official name | アスキア墳墓 |
| official name | Tombe van Askia |
| official name | Гробница императора Аския-Мохамеда (город Гао) |
| official name | 阿斯基亚王陵 |
| volume as quantity | World Heritage selection criterion (ii) |
| volume as quantity | Larousse Encyclopedia online |
| area | 82.7 |
| applies to part | buffer zone |