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The Great Mosque of Samarra is located in Samarra, Iraq and was built in the ninth century. It is also called the Great Mosque of Al-Mutawakkil. The Great Mosque was built by caliph Al-Mutawakkil. The Great Mosque of Samarra gave muslims the opportunity to worship in Iraq and also to express their religious beliefs. Also, the mosque was known for its use of stucco, which the inside contained. The Great Mosque of Samarra was a great building that was built because it gave muslims the opportunity to have a place to pray and also became a historical building in history, because of its height.
The mosque was commanded to be built in 848 and was completed in 851 by caliph Al-Mutawakkil. In the article Great Mosque of Al-matuwakkil, it says in the year 836 Caliph built a military camp on land and named it “surra man ra’a”, which means “he who sees it rejoices” and later others believed it meant “a joy for all who see” and that is when it becomes Samarra. 1. Samarra became a mosque that people visit daily and has become a joy for those people who visit the mosque. The great mosque of Samarra was founded in the left bank of the Tigris River. When the mosque was founded and created it signified Islam`s presence in the Tigris River.
The great mosque of Samarra was once the biggest mosque in history until it was attacked and destroyed. Before the destruction of the mosque, the wall paintings employed a wide range of subjects, it included geometric patterns and figural scenes depicting people taking part in courtly activities, such as playing and listening to music, dancing, or drinking wine at court banquets 2 and in the Mosque there were painting of people doing happy and fun things, it implies that the Mosque was a happy place for ...

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...de they can enter through sixteen gates that are open for people. There are various people who are climbing the mosque and are ready to call their prayers and support the muslim religion (Fig.3). Also, in the inside there are seventeen aisles and each aisle gets one window, from where people can go freely and pray. 5
On April 1, 2005, the top of the great mosque of Samarra was damaged and destroyed by a bomb. People started attacking the mosque because they thought the U.S. Troops were using the top of the mosque as a lookout position6. They mosque was fifty two meters high and would be a great lookout position for troops. With the bomb hitting the mosque it removed pieces of brick from all the mosque along its spiral ramp.When the mosque was destroyed it was never fixed or built again. To this day the mosque is still gone and has not been rebuilt.

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