الرشيد

الرشيد is a quarter in , . الرشيد is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Baghdad Museum and Khan Marjan (Caravanserai).

Museum
Photo: Aziz1005, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Baghdadi Museum is a local history museum and a tourist landmark located in and about the capital city of , . It was established in 1970.

Historic building
The Khan Mirjan is a building in the souk of , . It was built by the Jalayirid governor of Baghdad, Amin al-Din Mirjan in the 14th century originally as a caravanserai, an inn for traveling merchants, with a large center hall that was 13 metres high.

Mosque
Photo: Mahmoudalrawi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Sunni , located in the district of , in the of . The mosque was built by the Wazir of Baghdad Hassan Pasha in 1599 CE during the Ottoman era.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bab Al-Moatham and Bab Al-Sharqi.

Suburb
Bab al-Mu'adham is a prominent landmark in , . Bab al-Mu'adham was previously and historically one of the gates of Baghdad during the Ottoman Empire, leading to the mosque of Abu Hanifa, a renowned Islamic scholar.

Suburb
is a neighborhood of central , . It is bordered with Shorja and Bataween. The area surrounding market is a stronghold of the Mahdi Army, the main Shia militia in central Iraq.

Quarter
or Waziriyah is a neighborhood in the Adhamiyah District of Baghdad, . It is at one end of the Al-Sarafiya bridge, across the Tigris River from Utafiyah. is situated 3 km north of الرشيد.

الرشيد

Latitude
33.3394° or 33° 20′ 22″ north
Longitude
44.39161° or 44° 23′ 30″ east
Open location code
8H5689QR+QJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11524604155
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
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