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The Great Mosque of Samarra is in Samarra, Iraq, was built in the ninth century CE. It was completed in 852 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil who founded Samarra between 847 and 861. The Malwiyya (spiraling) Tower is 52 meters high and 33 meters wide.

 The Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria, Early 8th century

Name: The Great Mosque of Samarra

Material: Brick, stucco, glass

Size:
Height: 52 m (170 ft 7.2 in)
Width: 33 m (108 ft 3.2 in)

Date: ca. 9th century CE

Place of Origin: Samarra, Iraq

Location: Samarra, Iraq

Source and Registration#: 
John C. Sanders, the Oriental Institute. Link to resource (accessed April 30, 2010).
Attribution: John C. Sanders & the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Wadad Kadi

Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Studies, Emerita, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago