North Africa, Bab Mansour Gate,19th Century

North Africa, Bab Mansour Gate,19th Century

Meknes is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco. Meknes became capital of Morocco under the reign of Sultan Moulay Ismail (1672-1727) who turned Meknes into an impressive city in Spanish-Moorish style, surrounded by high walls with great doors. Bab Mansour was the last important construction project ordered by Sultan Moulay Ismail. The architect behind the masterpiece was a Christian convert to Islam named Mansour Laalej. In 1879-80 Oskar Lenz led the first trans-Sahara expedition from Morocco to Senegal and became the fourth European to visit the fabled city of Timbuktu. The others being, Alexander Gordon Laing (1826), René Caillié (1828) and Heinrich Barth (1853). Timbuktu; Travel through Morocco, the Sahara and Sudan by Oskar Lenz, 1884.

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