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Communal Granary of Tazlaft

Earthen architecture is one of the most powerful expressions of the human ability to create a built environment with available resources. Earthen architecture is today characterized by a variety of buildings and groups of buildings such as mosques, temples, churches, palaces, historic centres, granaries, and much more.

The evidence of its importance in cultures throughout the world has led to its consideration as a common heritage of humankind and therefore deserving protection and conservation by the international community.

Today, earthen architecture is seriously threatened by natural disasters (such as floods, earthquakes) and by human influence (industrialization, new technology, disappearance of traditional conservation practices, etc).

In 2001, the World Heritage Committee approved the development of an Earthen Architecture Conservation Programme to develop policies for the conservation, revitalization and valorization of earthen architectural properties and to build capacity of the regional, national and site management authorities and technical experts.

Contacts

  • Lazare Eloundou Assomo (l.eloundou-assomo@unesco.org)

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