| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Site / Event : Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
|
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The Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque has no minaret as it was built for the use of the shah's family. It dates from 1619.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Site / Event : Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
|
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The mosque faces the square.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Site / Event : Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
|
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A group of men outside the mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Site / Event : Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
|
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Detail of the gateway entrance of the mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Site / Event : Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
|
 |
The dome of the Sheikh Lotfallah Mosque has pale coloured tiles with flowery designs.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Site / Event : Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
|
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Passageway leading to the prayer hall in the Sheikh Lotfallah Mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
Site / Event : Jameh Mosque
|
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The Jameh Mosque is the largest in Iran and was added to over many centuries.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
Site / Event : Jameh Mosque
|
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The brick prayer hall in the northern area of the mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
Site / Event : Jameh Mosque
|
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Coridor in the northern area of the mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Yazd
Site / Event : Hazireh Mosque
|
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The Hazireh Mosque is fronted by tall and thin gateway, typical of Yazd.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Yazd
Site / Event : Hazireh Mosque
|
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Yazd mosques have the minarets on the tall gaterway.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Yazd
Site / Event : Hazireh Mosque
|
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Tiles on the mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Yazd
Site / Event : Jameh Mosque
|
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The courtyard of the Jameh Mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Yazd
Site / Event : Jameh Mosque
|
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Detail from the entrance portal of the 15th century mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Vakil Mosque
|
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The Northern entrance gate of Vakil Mosque which dates from the Zand era.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Vakil Mosque
|
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The Southern Iwan is one of the mosque's two gates.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Vakil Mosque
|
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Three students at the mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Vakil Mosque
|
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Looking into the mosque's courtyard from the prayer hall.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Atigh Mosque
|
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The Atigh Mosque is the oldest Islamic building in Shiraz, dating from 894.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Nasir ol Molk Mosque
|
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The Nasir ol Molk Mosque dates from the 19th century.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Nasir ol Molk Mosque
|
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The mosque is a riot of colour and decoration.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Nasir ol Molk Mosque
|
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Family visiting the mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Saladin Hussein Mosque
|
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The Mosque of Saladin Hussein.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Shiraz
Site / Event : Saladin Hussein Mosque
|
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Tilework on the Mosque of Saladin Hussein.
|
2010 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Syed Sultan Ali Mosque
|
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The Syed Sultan Ali Mosque dates from the Ottoman period (1590) and is named after a pasha (governor).
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Khan Murjan Mosque
|
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The Khan Murjan Mosque is from the Abbasid era (1410).
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Khan Murjan Mosque
|
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The mosque is famed for its brickwork and has three domes.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Qishleh
|
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The Abbasid style Quishla Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Qishleh
|
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Brick dome and tiled minaret of the Quishla Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Qishleh
|
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The decorated entrance of the Quishla Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Qishleh
|
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Decorated stonework above a window on the Quishla Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Hyder-Khana Mosque
|
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The Hyder-Khana Mosque on Rashid Street near Mutanabbi Street.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Alasfia Mosque
|
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The Alasfia Mosque on the Martyr's Bridge.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Alasfia Mosque
|
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The mosque has twin domes.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
|
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The Wazzar Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
|
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The Khulafa Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Al Khilani Mosque
|
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The Al Khilani Mosque is at a major intersection on the edge of the Old City.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Old City
Site / Event : Sheikh Abdul Qadir al Jilani Mosque
|
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The Sheikh Abdul Qadir al Jilani Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Firdos Square
Site / Event : Ramadan Mosque
|
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The Ramadan Mosque overlooks the spot where Saddam Hussein's statue was torn down by local Iraqis and the USA invasion forces in 2003.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Firdos Square
Site / Event : Ramadan Mosque
|
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The mosque entrance.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Karada
|
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A former mosque now part of a row of shops.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Shrine of Omar Sahrawardi
|
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The entrance to the mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Khadamiya
Site / Event : Imam al-Kadham Shrine
|
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The Imam al-Kadham Shrine is the largest Shia mosque in Baghdad.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
District : Khadamiya
Site / Event : Imam al-Kadham Shrine
|
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The current mosque dates from 1515 and is the largest Shia mosque in Baghdad.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Ibn Buniya Mosque
|
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The Ibn Buniya Mosque is close to the railway station.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
|
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Al Shawy Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Al Zawraa Park
|
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View of the Ibn Buniya Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
|
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The minaret of the Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Niche from the 8th century from the Al Khaski Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Mosque lamp.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Mimbar (pulpit) from the Great Mosque of Amadiya (1146).
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Detail of the Great Mosque of Amadiya mimbar.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Detail of the Great Mosque of Amadiya mimbar.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Carved door from the Great Mosque of Amadiya (1146).
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Carved decoration from a mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Niche from the Al Nouri Mosque (12th century).
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Carved inlaid wooden door from a mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Baghdad
Site / Event : Iraq Museum
|
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Prayer niche from a mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Salman Pak
Site / Event : Mosque of the Barber
|
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The Mosque of the Barber is behind a security wall.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Salman Pak
Site / Event : Mosque of the Barber
|
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The mosque is dedicated to Salman Pak, the barber of the Prophet.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Salman Pak
District : Ctesiphon
Site / Event : Taq Kasra
|
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The city was captured by Arabs in 637 and became a mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The Great Mosque of Samarra is also known as the Malwiyya Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque was built in 851 by Caliph Mutasim.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque was the largest in the world at the time it was built and had 464 columns in the enclosure.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque is famous for its spiral minaret.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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View of the mosque enclosure from the minaret.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The staircase, the mosque enclosure and the town.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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View of the mosque enclosure from the half way point of the minaret.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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View of the golden dome of the Al Askari Mosque in the modern town.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Abu Dalaf Mosque
|
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The Abu Dalaf Mosque in the desert.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Abu Dalaf Mosque
|
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The mosque is a smaller version of the Great Mosque of Samarra and dates from 861.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Abu Dalaf Mosque
|
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Before 2022 the ruins of the mosque were too dangerous to visit.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Abu Dalaf Mosque
|
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This mosque is remote and abandoned but picturesque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Abu Dalaf Mosque
|
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The minaret dominates the mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
District : Ancient City
Site / Event : Abu Dalaf Mosque
|
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The spiral minaret of the Great Mosque from the desert.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
Site / Event : Al Askari Mosque
|
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The golden domed Al-Askari Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Samarra
Site / Event : Al Askari Mosque
|
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Three Shia imams are buried within the mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
District : Wadi Al-Salaam
|
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One of a dozen mosques in the cemetary.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
|
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Kufa is a city of beautiful mosques.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
|
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The Al Mamali is one of the many mosques in the majority Shia city.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The Great Mosque is the most important in the city.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque dates from the 7th century.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The architecture of the mosque resembles a pre-Islamic Persian palace.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The Great Mosque at Kufa is important as the place where Imam Ali (a cousin of the Prophet and one of the first converts to Islam) was assassinated in 661.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque is very beautiful in the late afternoon sunlight.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque is considered one of the most important for Shias.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Central Mesopotamia
|
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Roadside mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Mesopotamian Marshes
City / Town : Chibayish
|
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Roadside mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Mesopotamian Marshes
City / Town : Chibayish
|
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Riverside mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Mesopotamian Marshes
City / Town : Chibayish
|
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Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
City / Town : Sulemaniya
Site / Event : Bazaar
|
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The Great Mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
City / Town : Sulemaniya
|
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Golden domed mosque in the North of the city.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
|
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Mosque near Said Sadiq.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
City / Town : Said Sadiq
|
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Brick mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
|
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Roadside mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
City / Town : Duhok
District : Bazaar
Site / Event : Grand Mosque
|
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The minaret of the 400 year old Grand Mosque is only visible from the bazaar.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
City / Town : Dohuk
District : Bazaar
Site / Event : Grand Mosque
|
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The mosque was constructed by Sultan Hussain Wali in the 1600s.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
City / Town : Duhok
|
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Ottoman style mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
|
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The Hurke Mosque is next to a lorry and car stop.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
State / Province : Iraqi Kurdistan
|
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Roadside mosque.
|
2022 |
were added from 1 February 2025.