Samarra & the Malwiya Minaret
Archaeological SitesSamarra, Salah al-Din
The spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra — the Abbasid capital's most iconic monument.
Samarra was the Abbasid capital in the ninth century. Its Great Mosque, with the 52-metre spiral minaret known as al-Malwiya, was once the largest mosque in the world.
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