Tengréla

Tengréla lies in the savanna of the southern Manding country, along routes between the upper Niger basin and the lands to the south. Muslim merchants and scholars brought their faith and their trading connections into this region. The town is known for an earthen mosque in the Sudanese style, with projecting wooden beams and buttresses. Such buildings adapted a tradition associated with the cities of the Niger to the savanna communities farther south, where commerce and Islamic learning took root.