1893年4月,路易斯·阿希纳(Louis Archinard)率领法军占领了这座城市。不久,法国记者菲力·杜布瓦(Félix Dubois)来到此地,并描述了旧清真寺的残迹。[7]在他来访时,受损的旧清真寺的内部正被当做墓地使用。[8]杜布瓦在《Timbuctoo: the mysterious》一书中给出了一个平面图以及草图,用以描述损毁前的旧清真寺在他的想象中是个什么样子。[9]
现今的清真寺
由塞库·阿玛杜所建的新清真寺之西南侧实景图。出自菲力·杜布瓦"Timbuctoo: the mysterious"一书。
^"When the sultan became a Muslim. he had his palace pulled down and the site turned into a mosque dedicated to God Most High. This is the present congregational mosque. He built another palace for himself and his household near the mosque on the east side." Hunwick 1999,第18頁
^"When Sultan Kunburu died – may God Most High have mercy on him – he was succeeded by the sultan who built the towers (abraj) of the congregational mosque. He in turn was succeeded by the sultan who built the wall which surrounds that mosque." Hunwick 1999,第20頁
Bedaux, R.; Diaby, B.; Maas, P. (编), L'architecture de Djenné (Mali): la pérennité d'un Patrimonie Mondial, Leiden: Rijksmuseum, 2003, ISBN 90-5349-420-0(法语).
Caillié, René, Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824–1828 (2 Volumes), London: Colburn & Bentley, 1830. Google Books: Volume 1 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Volume 2 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆).
Gardi, Bernard; Maas, Pierre; Mommersteeg, Geert, Djenné, il y a cent ans, Amsterdam: Institute Royal des Tropiques, 1995, ISBN 90-6832-250-8(法语). Reproduces postcards and photographs dating from the early years of the 20th century.
Hunwick, John O., Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-Sudan down to 1613 and other contemporary documents, Leiden: Brill, 1999, ISBN 90-04-11207-3.
Maas, Pierre; Mommersteeg, Geert (编), Djenné: chef-d'oeuvre architectural, Amsterdam: Institut Royal des Tropiques, 1992, ISBN 90-6832-228-1(法语).