Mosque Djingarey-ber in Timbuktu

Timbuktu is a town at the edge of the barren Sahara, a long time ago, when there were "Eldorado" in West Africa, the capital of the Mali Empire. Here it is from across the Arab light together scientists, philosophers, and all literate people. Here in the Mediterranean was carrying salt and gold for sale. That is why, in the minds of Europeans, the city overgrown with myths and legends.


In this mysterious town has many interesting and unusual places for tourists, built an extraordinary mosques and temples. But one of the most attractive mosques in Timbuktu is Djingarey-ber of the XIV century.


Djingarey-ber is part of the complex to the medieval University of Timbuktu, which o includes Islamic school in Sankor and Sidi Yahya. Minaret Islamic schools: – favorite spot of tourists Timbuktu, here photographed most of the visitors. During the prosperity of the empires of the Sahel it was one of the main educational places of the Islamic world. Now the entrance inside is not valid for non-Muslims.


Officially, all visitors or guests of the city have to go to the Regional Tourism Bureau to pay a tourist fee for visiting the town of 5,000 francs. Also here put in the passport of a tourist "stamp Timbuktu". In fact the payment of this contribution require only near the entrance to the mosque Djingarey-ber and in the Ethnographic Museum. So we can safely think that the tax is something like an entrance ticket to these places and pay for it in case there is a desire to see them.



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