Maḩaţţat Sāmarrā’

Maḩaţţat Sāmarrā’ is a railway station in Samarra District, Salah ad Din Governorate.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Great Mosque of Samarra and Samarra Barrage.

Great Mosque of Samarra

Archaeological site

The Great Mosque of Samarra or Al-Malwiya Mosque is a former congregational mosque, now in partial ruins, in Samarra, in the Saladin Governorate of Iraq. Great Mosque of Samarra is situated 3 km northeast of Maḩaţţat Sāmarrā’.

Samarra Barrage

Power station

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Samarra Barrage is a multi-purpose barrage on the Tigris River adjacent of Samarra and north of Baghdad, Iraq. The main purpose of the dam is to divert floodwater in the Tigris River to Lake Tharthar through the Tharthar depression along with irrigation and an 84 MW hydro-electricity station. Samarra Barrage is situated 1 km north of Maḩaţţat Sāmarrā’.

Al-Askari Shrine

Mosque

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.

The Al-Askari Shrine, also known as the 'Askariyya Shrine and the Al-Askari Mosque, is the mausoleums of the tenth and eleventh Shia Imams, Ali al-Hadi and Ḥasan al- Askari, located in the city of Samarra, Saladin Governorate of Iraq. Al-Askari Shrine is situated 2½ km northeast of Maḩaţţat Sāmarrā’.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Samarra.

Samarra

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Samarra is a city in Iraq's Baghdad Belts. In 2007, UNESCO named Samarra one of its World Heritage Sites.

Maḩaţţat Sāmarrā’

Type: Railway station
Also known as: “Maḩaţţat Qiţār Sāmarrā’”, “Mahattat Samarra‘”, “Sāmarrā”, “Sāmarra Railroad Station”, “Samarra Station”, and “Samarra Train Station”
Category: transportation
Location: Samarra District, Salah ad Din Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude

34.1887° or 34° 11′ 19″ north

Longitude

43.85207° or 43° 51′ 8″ east

Elevation

67 metres (220 feet)

Open location code

8H655VQ2+FR

GeoNames ID

91595

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In Other Languages

“Maḩaţţat Sāmarrā’” goes by many names.

Arabic: “محطة سامراء”
Arabic: “محطة قطار سامراء”

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