Qualla: Nakore Mosque https://qualla.com/nakore-mosque en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/y/1/nakore-mosque-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Nakore Mosque https://qualla.com/nakore-mosque Nakore Mosque: Introduction https://qualla.com/nakore-mosque/ Photo credit Virtutepetens, CC BY-SA 4.0. The timbers poke outward like the quills of a porcupine. They are not decorative -- or rather, they are decorative now, but they began as scaffolding. When the builders of the Nakore Mosque plastered its mud walls in the early 17th century, they left the wooden supports protruding so they could climb back up and replaster when the rains eroded the surface. Four centuries later, those timbers still jut from the parapet, a construction technique frozen in place, as practical and elegant as the day the mud dried.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/y/1/nakore-mosque-wp/ecy1-nakore-mosque-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nakore Mosque: Following the Songhai Roads https://qualla.com/nakore-mosque/ Photo credit Virtutepetens, CC BY-SA 4.0. The mosque exists because trade routes existed first. In the early 17th century, Mande warriors followed the old Songhai trading paths south from Bobo-Dioulasso, in present-day Burkina Faso, through Wa and onward to Kumasi. Islam traveled with them, taking root in the settlements...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/y/1/nakore-mosque-wp/ecy1-nakore-mosque-following-the-songhai-roads.mp3 0:06 2 full Nakore Mosque: Mud, Timber, and Geometry https://qualla.com/nakore-mosque/ Photo credit Virtutepetens, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Nakore Mosque is compact and irregular, shaped more by intuition than blueprint. A timber-frame structure supports the flat roof, which is packed mud over a framework of bush poles. The external walls are a series of irregularly shaped buttresses topped with pinnacles that ri...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/y/1/nakore-mosque-wp/ecy1-nakore-mosque-mud-timber-and-geometry.mp3 0:06 3 full Nakore Mosque: Six That Survive https://qualla.com/nakore-mosque/ Photo credit Virtutepetens, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Nakore Mosque is one of only six remaining Sudano-Sahelian style mosques in Ghana that are still in use. These mud-brick structures require constant upkeep -- replastering after each rainy season, replacing timbers weakened by termites, reinforcing walls that sag under their ...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/c/y/1/nakore-mosque-wp/ecy1-nakore-mosque-six-that-survive.mp3 0:06 4 full Nakore Mosque: Above the Upper West https://qualla.com/nakore-mosque/ Photo credit Virtutepetens, CC BY-SA 4.0. Nakore sits in the Upper West Region, a sparsely populated area of rolling savannah and scattered farming communities between Wa and the Burkina Faso border. From the air, the village is a small cluster of compound walls and thatch roofs amid red-brown earth and dry-season stubbl...

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