3D print the Great Mosque of Djenné
A free, printable model of the Great Mosque of Djenné, the open square around it and the low buildings beyond, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Great Mosque of Djenné
Mali's Great Mosque of Djenné is a Sudano-Sahelian building and the biggest adobe brick structure in the world. It rises in the city of Djenné, on the Bani River's flood plain. A first mosque was built here around the 13th century; the present structure dates from 1907. The mosque is the heart of the Djenné community and one of Africa's most famous landmarks. In 1988 UNESCO designated it, together with the Old Towns of Djenné, a World Heritage Site.
The walls are built of sun-baked earth bricks known as ferey, joined with sand and earth mortar, and coated in a plaster that gives them a smooth, sculpted appearance. Bundles of palm sticks, called toron, jut some 60 cm (2.0 ft) out of the walls and double as ready-made scaffolding for the annual repairs. The building rests on a raised platform of roughly 75 m by 75 m (246 ft by 246 ft), 3 meters (9.8 feet) above the marketplace, which prevents damage when the Bani River floods.
The prayer wall faces east toward Mecca and overlooks the city marketplace, where three big box-shaped towers dominate it. The central tower is around 16 meters high, and the cone-shaped spires on each tower are topped with ostrich eggs. Eighteen pilaster-like buttresses, each capped by a pinnacle, strengthen the eastern wall. The town arranged the rebuilding in 1906, and Ismaila Traoré, who led Djenné's guild of masons, directed the work, which was completed in 1907.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 5 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 6 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 8 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Dozens of small pinnacles
- Small pointed pinnacles line the walls and corners, with rows of tiny bumps across the roof. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps each one, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Three cone-topped towers
- Three box-like towers rise from the east wall, each ending in a cone. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and a slower print speed help the cone tips stay crisp.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Great Mosque of Djenné takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Great Mosque of Djenné is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Great Mosque of Djenné STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Great Mosque of Djenné grows with the print: about 5 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
