Editing Mudbrick (section)

==Banco==
[[Image:Great Mosque of Djenné 3.jpg|thumb|[[Great Mosque of Djenné|The Grand Mosque of Djenné]] as reconstructed in 1907 is the largest mudbrick structure in the world.]]

The [[Great Mosque of Djenné]], in central [[Mali]], is the world's largest mudbrick structure. It, like much of [[Sahelian]] architecture, is built with a mudbrick called '''Banco''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/researchlab/wp/wp-content/uploads/kiyo/pdf-data/no41/oussouby_sacko.pdf|title=Issues of Cultural Conservation and Tourism Development in the Process of World Heritage Preservation|last=SACKO|first=Oussouby|date=15 November 2015|publisher=Area Studies|access-date=7 October 2016|archive-date=27 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927003156/http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/researchlab/wp/wp-content/uploads/kiyo/pdf-data/no41/oussouby_sacko.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> a recipe of mud and [[grain]] husks, fermented, and either formed into bricks or applied on surfaces as a [[plaster]] like paste in broad strokes. This plaster must be reapplied annually.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3562677/Timbuktu-Mud-mud-glorious-mud.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3562677/Timbuktu-Mud-mud-glorious-mud.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Timbuktu: Mud, mud, glorious mud|last=Bradbury|first=Dominic|date=30 October 2008|publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=25 February 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>