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Abu Dulaf Mosque (Arabic: جامع أبو دلف) is an ancient historic mosque located approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of Samarra in the Saladin Governorate, [1] Iraq. The mosque was commissioned by the 10th Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil in 859.
The mind behind the mosque, Al-Mutawakkil, was assassinated in 861, and structures like this mosque were then difficult to credit to a subsequent caliph. There was unrest and a ten year period of trouble, including a civil war in 865–866. This Great Mosque was one of the last buildings with a known name attributed to it in this period. [8]
Al-Mutawakkiliyya consisted of an unwalled area, through the center of which ran a north–south avenue. On the western side of the avenue was the Abu Dulaf Mosque. Like the Great Mosque of Samarra, the Abu Dulaf Mosque included a spiral minaret, measuring 34 m (112 ft) high.
This is a list of mosques in Iraq.There are 7,000 Sunni mosques and 3,500 Shia mosques in Iraq as a whole. [1] According to the Office of Waqf and Sunnah in Iraq, in the capital city of Baghdad, there are 912 Jama Masjids that conduct Friday Prayer and 149 smaller mosques which only hold regular daily prayers. [2]
Abu Dulaf Mosque is a famous mosque commissioned by al-Mutawakkil in 859. The mosque is rectangular in shape, and consists of an open-air courtyard surrounded by corridors, with the qibla corridor being the largest. The mosque is among the largest mosques in the world measured by area, reaching 46,800 square metres (504,000 sq ft).
Abu Dulaf Mosque; Abu Hanifa Mosque; Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque; G. Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul; Great Mosque, Aqrah; H. Haydar-Khana Mosque; I. Imam Ali Mosque (Basra) J.
Abu Dulaf Mosque, approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of Samarra, [47] commissioned by Al-Mutawakkil in 859 Friday Mosque of Damghan (2nd half of 8th century or 9th century) Mosque of Ibn Tulun (876–9) in Cairo is an example of Abbasid architecture built by the autonomous Abbasid governor Ahmad ibn Tulun [ 48 ]
[5]: 76 The Abu Dulaf Mosque, built near Samarra and finished in 861, has a smaller minaret of similar shape. [ 5 ] : 76 [ 8 ] In the later Abbasid period (11th to 13th centuries), after the Seljuk period, minarets were typically cylindrical brick towers whose square or polygonal bases were integrated into the structure of the mosque itself.