List of mosques in Baghdad
Baghdad, located in Iraq, was once the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and a center of Islamic advancements. The Golden Age ended in 1258 when the Mongols laid siege to the city and demolished many of its libraries and monuments.
Rashidunids
- The Caliphs Mosque
Abbasids
- The Caliph Mosque
- Abu Hanifa Mosque
- Al-Qadereyya Shrine
- Sitt Zumurrud Khatun's Tomb
- Al-Mansur Mosque[1]
- Al Asfaya Mosque
- Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani Mosque
Turco-Persian
- Mausoleum of Omar Al-Sahrawardi
- Al-Kadhimiya Mosque
Firdos Square, the location of the former statue of Saddam Hussein.
Ottomans
- Ahmadiyya Mosque[2]
- Haydar-Khana Mosque
- Al-Khaffafin Mosque
Modern
- Umm al-Qura Mosque
- Al-Rahman mosque
- Albunneya mosque
- Martyrs Mosque
- 14th of Ramadan Mosque
- Um Al-Ma`arik Mosque
- Um Al-Kura Mosque
- Khulafa Central Mosque - Abbasid minaret 700 years old, while the mosque main building is modern.
- Baghdad Airport Mosque
- Al-Neda'a Mosque
- Al Mustafa Mosque
- Ma'roof AlKarkhi's Mosque
- (Saddam Grand Mosque) [3]
Unknown
- Ibn al-Jawzi mosque
- Bilal Al-habashi mosque
- Um Al Tubool Mosque
- Al-Sada Al-Na'eem Mosque
See also
References
- ↑ “The Great Mosque of al-Mansur at Baghdad,” Iraq, I, 1934: 105-11
- ↑ ArchNet.org. "Baghdad". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ The construction of the Saddam Grand Mosque was stopped at an extremely early stage. It is often confused with the Al-Rahman mosque.
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