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Mosque of Al-Mutawakkil
Samarra,
847.
Style:
Early Islamic
“Great
mosque, Samarra, [was] built...in the caliphate of
Al-Mutawakkil...This is the largest mosque in the world. Built
entirely of brick within a wall flanked with towers, it has a 55 m.
high minaret with a spiral ramp that recalls the ziggurats of
Mesopotamia.”
—Henri
Stierlin. Comprende l’Architecture Universelle 2. P.
347.
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