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Iraq - Samarra - A man climbs the minaret of the Al-Mutawakkil mosque
A man climbs the minaret of the ancient mosque of Al-Mutawakkil at Samarra, Iraq.The first mosque, built in 836, has now disappeared; it was replaced in 849-852 by a new mosque built on a grand scale, which for a long time was the largest mosque of the Islamic world. It continued to be used until the end of the 11th century.
Author: Stuart Freedman
©Stuart Freedman
Photo size: 17.5 Mpixels (50 MB uncompressed) - 3384x5166 pixels (11.3x17.2 in / 28.7x43.7 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Arab, architecture, climb, historical, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, monument, mosque, Muslim, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, samarra, spiral
Published in: Iraq - The Desert and the King
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