Great Mosque of Samarra
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Great Mosque of Samarra

Mosque in Iraq.

About

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.

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Location

Open map: Great Mosque of Samarra and 4 nearby attractions

34.20620, 43.87985 · Samarra

Nearby

  1. Al-Askari ShrineReligious sites
    1000 m
  2. SamarraHistory & heritage
    1.3 km
  3. Abu Delf MosqueReligious sites
    19 km
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