Bobo Dioulasso Grand Mosque, Religious monument in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Bobo-Dioulasso Grand Mosque is a religious structure with two distinctive minaret towers and a prayer hall supported by 65 pillars arranged in a checkerboard pattern. The building combines mud, laterite, mahogany wood, and other local materials in its construction.

Local accounts date the mosque's construction to 1812–1832, after the king of Sya called on the Muslim leader Almamy Sidiki Sanou for help against Tieba Traoré's Kénédougou kingdom, which was halted about 30 km from the capital; Sanou asked for a mosque in return. Some researchers place the building in the 1850s or as late as 1880–1893. It has been enlarged and repaired repeatedly, a tin roof was added over part of the courtyard in 1983, and the roof collapsed in the heavy rains of 2018 before being rebuilt.

The mosque is known locally as the Grande Mosquée de Bobo-Dioulasso and belongs to the Sudano-Sahelian building tradition of West Africa. Its form is a smaller variant of the monumental mosques of Timbuktu and Djenné in Mali, shaped by a village-based community rather than an imperial court. The protruding wooden beams, called toron, also serve as scaffolding during the repairs the building regularly needs.

The building requires regular maintenance during rainy seasons because of its mud and natural material construction. Visitors should be prepared for ground conditions and respect the pace of preservation work.

The wooden beams jutting from the walls, called toron, serve as scaffolding during repairs, which are frequent because of the damp climate. The mosque has been repeatedly enlarged and patched since its construction, and in 2018 heavy rains caused its roof to collapse; it was rebuilt in the following months.