Samarra', Iraq
Great Mosque of Samarra
The Great Mosque of Samarra or Al-Malwiya Mosque is a former congregational mosque, now in partial ruins, in Samarra, in the Saladin Governorate of Iraq. The mosque was commissioned in 848 CE and completed in 851 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil. At the time of construction it was the world's largest mosque.
- City
- Samarra'
- Country
- Iraq
- Category
- Religious
- Suggested visit
- About 45 minutes
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Background: Wikipedia