A cathedral's mortarSourced
The walls used soil
from termite mounds.
Builders of St Peter's Cathedral on Malawi's Likoma Island used soil from compacted termite mounds in the mortar. A local natural material helped hold the large building together.
Tiny builders left material
for a much larger one.
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