some really beautiful african architecture because honestly this site is so western-centric

misshoneywheeler:

softnbratty:

itsabigjaz:

elsinore-snores:

mako

unknown

cameroon

burkina faso

mali

Ndebele

burkina faso

please add more if you can!

these are SO BEAUTIFUL

MALI IS MY FAVORITE. I LOVE THE COLORS 😍😍😍😍😍

The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia

The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt

The Nubian Pyramids at Meroe, Sudan

Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, a commemoration of the destroyed Library at Alexandria

Bosjes Chapel, South Africa

The Gando School by Diébédo Francis Kéré, Gando, Burkina Faso

The Dyeji Building, Luanda, Angola

beysebastiani:

sydneykrukowski:

voiceofnature:

In the early 1800s a man named Little Jon lived in this so called earth cabin (swe. ‘backstuga’) located in southern Småland, Sweden. An earthen cabin is built partially buried in the ground, in this case there’s three walls of stone and one wall made of wood. In Sweden earthen cabins was common in the forests from the 1600s until the late 1800s. Link

damn how old is lil jon?

only someone as timeless and wise as him could do what he did on get low

iheartpakistan:

Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan.

The Wazir Khan Mosque is famous for its extensive tile work and frescos. It was built in seven years starting around 1634–1635 AD during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan. Shaikh Ilm-ud-din Ansari, a native of Chiniot who rose to be the court physician to Shah Jahan and the governor of Lahore . He was commonly known as as Wazir Khan (the word wazir means ‘minister’ in Urdu) and thus the mosque came to be known as the Wazir Khan Mosque.

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