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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] In Fallujah, there are 970 ...
In 2007, the association was expelled by the Sunni Endowment, a quasi-governmental agency responsible for Sunni mosques in Iraq, which took control of Umm al-Qura. [3] On 28 August 2011, the mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber during Friday prayers, killing at least 28 people and injuring 30 more. An Iraqi member of parliament, Khalid al ...
The Arif Agha Mosque (Arabic: مسجد عارف آغا) later known as the Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal Mosque is a historic mosque located in the Rusafa area of Baghdad, Iraq. [1] [2] The mosque was built during the Ottoman period, and it contains a small mausoleum which is purported to be the burial place of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of the Hanbali school of thought.
Al-Nabi Shith Mosque (Arabic: مسجد النبي سيث, romanized: Mosque of the Prophet Sheet) was a historic Shi'ite Muslim mosque and shrine in Mosul, Iraq. The shrine is believed to contain the tomb of Seth, third son of Adam, known by Muslims as Sheth or Shith. Destroyed by ISIL in 2014, there were plans to rebuild the mosque. [citation ...
The Shabandar Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الشابندر) is a historic 20th-century mosque located in al-Adhamiyah district of Baghdad, Iraq.The mosque was built by the Iraqi Arab Shabandar family, recognized as an important wealthy merchant and philanthropist family in Iraq that built several mosques with their wealth.
Al-Rahman Mosque (Arabic: جامع الرحمان; transliterates: Mosque of The Most Merciful) in Baghdad, was intended to be one of the largest mosques in Iraq.It was begun by Saddam Hussein in 1998, but work was cut short during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and it was never completed and only its skeleton remains today.
Al-Hannanah Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلْحَنَّانَة , romanized: Masjid al-Ḥannānah) is a Shi'ite mosque in Najaf, Iraq.This mosque is also called Masjid ar-Raʾs (Arabic: مَسْجِد ٱلرَّأْس), meaning "Mosque of the Head" (of Husayn ibn Ali), because Husain's head was kept in its middle, while being taken to his opponent Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, according to a ...
The mosque is made of bricks and includes a minaret and a dome which is built on a cylindrical body on top of the tomb of Sheikh al-Kawaz. The minaret of the mosque is located on a square base of stone. The base is about 5 meters tall with the cylindrical body of the minaret is built with bricks and stucco and is about 10 meters long.