touba: “Far from his spiritual home, an African Muslim faces Mecca during prayer in Mopti, Mali, a trade center on the southern rim of the Sahara. His rooftop outpost on the sunbaked mud mosque overlooks a branch of the Niger River.” Photograph from “The Sword and the Sermon” by Thomas J. Abercrombie, published in the July 1972 issue of National Geographic.

touba:

“Far from his spiritual home, an African Muslim faces Mecca during prayer in Mopti, Mali, a trade center on the southern rim of the Sahara. His rooftop outpost on the sunbaked mud mosque overlooks a branch of the Niger River.”

Photograph from “The Sword and the Sermon” by Thomas J. Abercrombie, published in the July 1972 issue of National Geographic.