Mbari house

Native to the Owerri-Igbo community in Southeast Nigeria, Mbari houses are temporary, spacious, open-sided, square-shaped designed shelters, constructed as sacrifices for decay rather than for worship and built to placate specific deities, such as Ala, a deity in Igbo mythology. They were built in reaction to natural calamities said to be caused by unfavorable supernatural occurrences; they were not designed as shrines. They were built out of anthill clay with the goal of eventually decomposing and returning to Ala, the earth goddess of productivity, who was thought to be placated after consuming these constructions.

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