List of mosques in Baghdad

Baghdad, located in Iraq, was once the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and a center of Islamic advancements. The Golden Age ended in 1258 when the Mongols laid siege to the city and demolished many of its libraries and monuments.

Abu Hanifa mosque 2015

Rashidunids

AlKhulafa Mosque 2016

AlKhulafa Mosque 2014

• AlKhulafa Mosque

Abbasids

Main hall of Abu Hanifa Mosque in 2014

Al Sarai Mosque in 2014

Al khelani Mosque in 2012

• The Caliph Mosque
• Abu Hanifa Mosque
• Al-Qadereyya Shrine
• Sitt Zumurrud Khatun's Tomb
• Al-Mansur Mosque^[1]
• Al Asfaya Mosque
• Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani Mosque
• Al Sarai Mosque

Turco-Persian

• Mausoleum of Omar Al-Sahrawardi
• Al-Kadhimiya Mosque

Firdos Square, the location of the former statue of Saddam Hussein.

Al-Kadhimiya Mosque main entrance in 1970

Ottomans

Al-Hayder Khana Mosque

• Ahmadiyya Mosque^[2]
• Haydar-Khana Mosque
• Al-Khaffafin Mosque
• Abu Hanifa Mosque

Modern

Umm al-Qura Mosque

Al-Rahman mosque

• Umm al-Qura Mosque
• Al-Rahman mosque
• Albunneya mosque
• Martyrs Mosque
• 14th of Ramadan Mosque
• Um Al-Ma`arik Mosque
• Um Al-Kura Mosque
• Khulafa Central Mosque - Abbasid minaret 700 years old, while the mosque main building is modern.
• Baghdad Airport Mosque
• Al-Neda'a Mosque
• Al Mustafa Mosque
• Ma'roof AlKarkhi's Mosque
• (Saddam Grand Mosque) ^[3]

Unknown

• Ibn al-Jawzi mosque
• Bilal Al-habashi mosque
• Um Al Tubool Mosque
• Al-Sada Al-Na'eem Mosque

See also

• List of mosques in Iraq

References

1. “The Great Mosque of al-Mansur at Baghdad,” Iraq, I, 1934: 105-11
2. ArchNet.org. "Baghdad". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
3. The construction of the Saddam Grand Mosque was stopped at an extremely early stage. It is often confused with the Al-Rahman mosque.

External links

• Baghdad Mosques, GlobalSecurity.org