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Spiral minaret in Samarra
 

You can see its remains to date with its spiral minaret northwest the present Samarra city; it is considered the largest and most salient remains of ancient Samarra city and considered one of the largest mosques in the Islamic world. The building of which was kicked off in 234 AH and completed in 237 AH

it is rectangular in shape, with its four facades facing almost the four directions, the length of its side from north to south (248,70m) from outside without the addition, and from east to west (165,80m) from outside also; but as from the inside its length is (238,60m) and width (155,60m); however, this mosque consists of prayer house, two flanks and a hind part encircling a rectangular nave which contains a circular fountain (an aquarium) made up of a single piece of granite.

House of prayer in this mosque consists of nine transverse arcades and twenty five tiles equal in area except that of the Mihrab which is a bit larger than the others with a width standing at (4,20m), however, the oratory overtops the nave by nineteen domed columns, and as for the oratory depth it comes to (62m) and each of the eastern and western flanks are composed of four porches each contains (23) slab.

The mosque was built of bricks and plaster with the floor tiled with square bricks carefully and skillfully arranged, the walls are huge distinguished by their height which come to (11m), and (2,70m) thick without towers, these walls are supported by semi-cylindrical towers resting on rectangular foundations except the corner towers which are semi-circular with a diameter of (5m), total number of mosque towers is (44) tower, and the same number for the west wall, yet the north wall is braced by (8) towers and likewise the southern. Mosque can be entered thru (15) doorways, three of them in the northern wall, two in Qibla wall, and five in both the eastern and western walls, while the vaults of these doorways are elevated about six meters above the ground level of mosque crowned with pointed–vault openings.  

The mosque is characterized by its spiral minaret, one of the oldest archeological existing Iraq minarets, unique among the minarets of the Islamic world situated outside the mosque at a distance of (27,20m) from the northern wall.

Body of the minaret is spiral resting on a square two-tier terrace, length of the bottom one (31,80m) and the upper (30,5m), rising (4,20m) above the ground level and embellished by curvatures with pointed vaults (9) in number on each side except the southern side where there are (7) only, as part thereof covers the end of ramp leading to the base. The body of minaret is cylindrical in shape around which a spiral staircase goes around it, in anticlockwise direction, and permeates in its upper part the last cylinder in the body ending in the apex of minaret of (3m) in diameter, while the wonderful thing about the upper part of minaret is a group of Mihrab niches, eight in number, crowning the body and their vaults are resting on baked brick semi-cylindrical fused pillars, this minaret's height is about (50m), except the base.

Spiral minaret   

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