Great Mosque of Samarra
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.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: mosque in Iraq
- Also known as: “Grande Moschea di Samarra”, “Mesquita al-Mutawàkkil”, “mosquée al-Mutawakkil”, “مسجد سامراء الكبير”, and “ムタワッキルのモスク”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Malwiya and Al-Askari Shrine.
Malwiya
Tower
Al-Askari Shrine
Mosque
The Al-Askari Shrine, also known as the 'Askariyya… Al-Askari Shrine is situated 1 km southwest of Great Mosque of Samarra.
Samarra Barrage
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samarra.
Great Mosque of Samarra
- Categories: protected area, mosque, tourism, historic site, and tourist attraction
- Location: Al-Daur District, Salah ad Din Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
34.20619° or 34° 12′ 22″ north
Longitude
43.87993° or 43° 52′ 48″ east
Open location code
8H656V4H+FX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=yes
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Western Mari—“Great Mosque of Samarra” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Meuseujid Raya Samarra”
- Afrikaans: “Groot Moskee van Samarra”
- Albanian: “Al-Mutavekil”
- Albanian: “El-Mutavekil”
- Arabic: “المسجد الجامع في سامراء”
- Arabic: “جامع الملوية”
- Armenian: “Սամարայի մեծ մզկիթ”
- Basque: “Samarrako meskita handia”
- Catalan: “gran mesquita de Samarra”
- Catalan: “Gran mesquita de Samarra”
- Chinese: “薩邁拉大清真寺”
- Dutch: “Grote moskee van Samarra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المسجد الجامع فى سامراء”
- Esperanto: “Granda Moskeo de Samaro”
- Esperanto: “Moskeo de Samaro”
- Estonian: “Sāmarrā’ suur mošee”
- Finnish: “Samarran suuri moskeija”
- French: “Grande mosquée de Samarra”
- French: “Grande Mosquée de Samarra”
- German: “Große Moschee von Samarra”
- German: “Minarett von Samarra”
- Greek: “Μεγάλο Τζαμί της Σαμάρα”
- Hebrew: “המסגד הגדול של סאמרא”
- Hindi: “सामर्रा की महान मस्जिद”
- Hindi: “सामर्रा बड़ी मस्जिद”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Agung Samarra”
- Italian: “Grande moschea del Venerdì”
- Italian: “Grande Moschea del Venerdì”
- Japanese: “サーマッラーの大モスク”
- Japanese: “マルウィヤ・ミナレット”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Samarra”
- Macedonian: “Голема џамија во Самара”
- Malay: “Masjid Agung Samarra”
- Minangkabau: “Musajik Aguang Samarra”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Granda Mosqueta de Samarra”
- Persian: “مسجد جامع سامرا”
- Portuguese: “Grande Mesquita de Samarra”
- Romanian: “Marea Moschee din Samarra”
- Russian: “Большая мечеть в Самарре”
- Serbian: “Велика џамија у Самари”
- Slovenian: “Velika mošeja Samara”
- Spanish: “Gran Mezquita de Samarra”
- Swedish: “Stora moskén i Samarra”
- Tamil: “சாமராவின் பெரிய மசூதி”
- Tamil: “சாமர்ராவின் பெரிய பள்ளிவாசல்”
- Telugu: “ప్రసిద్ధ సమర్రా మస్జిద్”
- Thai: “มัสยิดใหญ่แห่งซามัรรออ์”
- Turkish: “Samarra Ulu Camii”
- Ukrainian: “Велика мечеть у Самаррі”
- Urdu: “مسجد سامرا”
- Vietnamese: “Nhà thờ Hồi giáo lớn Samarra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dungganan nga Moske han Samarra”
- Western Mari: “Самарра кого мечеть”
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