Haydar-Khana Mosque

The Haydar-Khana Mosque is a ancient mosque in Baghdad, Iraq. Situated in Al Rasheed Street, the mosque changed into initially built with the aid of and attributed to Haydar Pasha Jalabi bin Muhammad Jalabi Shah Bandar, who's buried within the same vicinity along with some individuals of his own family. The mosque became later reconstructed and accelerated throughout 1819-1827 by means of the Wazir of Baghdad Dawud Pasha, the remaining wali of the Mamluk dynasty in Iraq. Dawud Pasha set up the madrasa within the identical place, known as Madrasa al-Dawudia. There is also an connected library. Reconstruction and protection have been accomplished in 1827 during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud Khan bin Abdul-Hamid, again in

1890 by way of the Ottoman emir Abdul-Hamid Al-Thani. During this time, an attached water keep which confronted the close by Souq Haydar-Khana turned into demolished. During the Nineteen Twenties, the mosque became applied as an meeting area for revolutionaries who done numbers of revolutions in the course of the decade. Haydar-Khana Mosque is taken into consideration one of the greatest examples of the Ottoman buildings in Baghdad. The mosque is rectangular-shaped, and the three doors are made of marble.