Al-Khulafa Mosque

Al-Khulafa Mosque is a historical Sunni Islamic mosque positioned in Baghdad, Iraq. The mosque dates returned to the Abbasid generation and turned into commissioned by way of the 17th Abbasid Caliph, al-Muktafi r. 902–908, as a Friday mosque for the sprawling palace complicated erected by using him and his father, al-Mu'tadid. Due to this, the mosque is regularly additionally referred to as as Al-Qasr Mosque which literally way the "mosque of the palace" in Arabic. Later the mosque turned into dubbed because the Mosque of Caliph, which gave the modern call Al-Khulafa. The mosque is one of the historical landmarks of the city of Baghdad.

The mosque become noted in the Ibn Battuta’s journey file while he visited Baghdad in 1327. The maximum extremely good a part of the mosque is its 34-metre 112 toes minaret which remains surviving on its original shape courting again to the Abbasid era. The minaret is the only element closing from the unique production. It is ready on the southeast corner of the sahn and built in brick and mortar. The minaret and its foundation are decorated with muqarnas, and the frame of the minaret is engraved with Kufic inscriptions and Islamic geometric styles.