 After the completion of the mbari the spirit workers are reincorporated into the community and a feast is held for the opening of the mbari house where elders and the community come to exhibit the critique the expensive mbari.The mbari house is not a source of worship and is left to dilapidate, being reabsorbed by nature in symbolic sense related to Ala.

Before the twentieth century, circular stepped pyramids were built in reverence of Ala at the town of Nsude in northern Igboland.In total ten clay/mud pyramidal structures were still existing in 1935.