Malwiya
The Great Mosque of Samarra is a former congregational mosque, now in partial ruins, located in Samarra, in the Saladin Governorate of Iraq. The mosque was commissioned in 848 CE and completed in 851 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Tower
- Description: minaret
- Also known as: “Al Malwiyah”, “Al Malwīyah”, and “Malwīya Tower”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Mosque of Samarra and Samarra Barrage.
Great Mosque of Samarra
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Mosque of Samarra is a former congregational mosque, now in partial ruins, located in Samarra, in the Saladin Governorate of Iraq. The mosque was commissioned in 848 CE and completed in 851 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil. Great Mosque of Samarra is situated 110 metres south of Malwiya.
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 2½ km southwest of Malwiya.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samarra.
Samarra
Samarra is a city in Iraq's Baghdad Belts. In 2007, UNESCO named Samarra one of its World Heritage Sites.
Malwiya
- Categories: protected area, minaret, and building
- Location: Al-Daur District, Salah ad Din Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.20717° or 34° 12′ 26″ northLongitude
43.88029° or 43° 52′ 49″ eastElevation
82 metres (269 feet)Height
2.7 metres (8.9 feet)Open location code
8H656V4J+V4OpenStreetMap ID
way 1059864911OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=tower
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Malwiya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الملوية”
- Esperanto: “Minareto de Samaro”
- French: “Grande Mosquée de Samarra”
- German: “Malwiya”
- German: “Malwiyya”
- German: “Minarett von Samarra”
- Japanese: “マルウィヤ・ミナレット”
- Polish: “Spiralny Minaret”
- Portuguese: “Malwiya”
- Russian: “Малвия”
- Ukrainian: “Мальвія”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Malwiya”. Photo: Izzedine, CC BY 3.0.