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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