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Essential Architecture- Iraq
Imam Yahya Abul Qasim in Mosul. Umayyad Mosque |
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architect |
Utba bin Farqad Al-Salami |
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Mosul |
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date |
640 AD |
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style |
Islamic |
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construction |
remarkably elaborate brickwork 52m high |
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Mosque |
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| Umayyad Mosque: The first ever in the city, built in 640 AD by Utba bin Farqad Al-Salami after he conquered Mosul in the reign of Caliph Umar ibn Al-Khattab. The only original part still extant is the remarkably elaborate brickwork 52m high minaret that leans like the Tower of Pisa, called Al-Hadba (The Humped). | |
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| Imam Yahya Abul Qasim in Mosul. © Iraqi State Antiquities Authority | |
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| View of Mosul. © Iraqi Ministry of Information 1977 | |
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| The minaret of the Mosul mosque. © Iraqi Ministry of Information 1977 | |
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links |
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| www.essential-architecture.com | |