Great Mosque of Samarra

The Great Mosque of Samarra is a ninth-century mosque positioned in Samarra, Iraq. The mosque turned into commissioned in 848 and completed in 851 by means of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil who reigned from 847 until 861. The mosque is positioned inside the 15,058-hectare Samarra Archaeological City UNESCO World Heritage Site, indexed in 2007. The Great Mosque of Samarra changed into, for a time, the largest mosque inside the international; its minaret, the Malwiya Tower, is a spiralling cone 52 metres excessive and 33 metres extensive with a spiral ramp.

The reign of al-Mutawakkil had a amazing impact on the appearance of the town, for he regarded to had been a lover of architecture, and the only liable for building the awesome Mosque of Samarra. In a listing of his constructing initiatives which appears in numerous one of a kind versions, the brand new Congregational Mosque and up to twenty palaces are noted, totalling between 258 and 294 million dirhams. The new Congregational Mosque, with its spiral minaret, constructed among 849 and 851, shaped part of an extension of the town to the east, extending into the antique hunting park.