<P> The actual date of construction of the first mosque in Djenné is unknown, but dates as early as 1200 and as late as 1330 have been suggested . The earliest document mentioning the mosque is Abd al - Sadi's Tarikh al - Sudan which gives the early history, presumably from the oral tradition as it existed in the mid seventeenth century . The tarikh states that a Sultan Kunburu became a Muslim and had his palace pulled down and the site turned into a mosque . He built another palace for himself near the mosque on the east side . His immediate successor built the towers of the mosque while the following Sultan built the surrounding wall . </P> <P> There is no other written information on the Great Mosque until the French explorer René Caillié visited Djenné in 1828 and wrote "In Jenné is a mosque built of earth, surmounted by two massive but not high towers; it is rudely constructed, though very large . It is abandoned to thousands of swallows, which build their nests in it . This occasions a very disagreeable smell, to avoid which, the custom of saying prayers in a small outer court has become common ." </P> <P> Ten years before René Caillié's visit, the Fulani leader Seku Amadu had launched his jihad and conquered the town . Seku Amadu appears to have disapproved of the existing mosque and allowed it to fall into disrepair . This would have been the building that Caillié saw . Seku Amadu had also closed all the small neighbourhood mosques . Between 1834 and 1836, Seku Amadu built a new mosque to the east of the existing mosque on the site of the former palace . The new mosque was a large, low building lacking any towers or ornamentation . </P> <P> French forces led by Louis Archinard captured Djenné in April 1893 . Soon after, the French journalist Félix Dubois visited the town and described the ruins of the original mosque . At the time of his visit, the interior of the ruined mosque was being used as a cemetery . In his 1897 book, Tombouctou la Mystérieuse (Timbuktu the mysterious), Dubois provides a plan and a drawing as to how he imagined the mosque looked before being abandoned . </P>

What led to the destruction of the great friday mosque in jenne in the early nineteenth century
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