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The minaret's spiral shape inspired Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Philip Johnson's design for the 1976 Chapel of Thanksgiving at Thanks-Giving Square in Dallas, Texas, in the United States. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The minarets of a prominent Emirati mosque , that of Sheikh Khalifa in Al Ain , have been also been inspired by this minaret. [ 29 ]
The city was further developed under Caliph al-Mutawakkil, who sponsored the construction of lavish palace complexes, such as al-Mutawakkiliyya, and the Great Mosque of Samarra with its famous spiral minaret or Malwiya, built-in 847. [8] For his son al-Mu'tazz he built the large palace Bulkuwara. Qasr al-'Ashiq, an Abbasid-era palace near Samarra
The iconic spiral minaret which resembles the renowned Malwiya of the Great Mosque of Samarra is located at the northern side. The unique design of the minaret is said to be inspired by the similar structure in Firuzabad , [ 2 ] while others believe the minaret's unique spiral design is derived from the architecture of the Mesopotamian ...
A spiral minaret is a feature of: the Great Mosque of Samarra; the Mosque with the Spiral Minaret ... under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
The minaret at the Great Mosque of Kairouan, built in 836 under Aghlabid rule, is the oldest minaret in North Africa and one of the oldest minarets in the world. [3] [8] It has the shape of a massive tower with a square base, three levels of decreasing widths, and a total height of 31.5 meters. [29]
Al-Askari Shrine, the ' Askariyya Shrine, or Al-Askari Mosque [a] is a Shia Muslim mosque and mausoleum in the Iraqi city of Samarra 125 km (78 mi) from Baghdad.It is one of the most important Shia shrines in the world.
Samarra is a city in central Iraq, which served as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from 836 to 892. Founded by the caliph al-Mu'tasim, Samarra was briefly a major metropolis that stretched dozens of kilometers along the east bank of the Tigris, but was largely abandoned in the latter half of the 9th century, especially following the return of the caliphs to Baghdad.
The Samara Mosque (Russian: Самарская соборная мечеть) in Samara is one of the largest mosques in Russia. [1] It was built in the late 1990s in red brick. The main dome is 13.5 meters in diameter. The minaret rises to a height of 67 meters. [2] The building was designed by Rasim Walshin, an architect from Samara. [2]