Great Mosque of Sulaymaniyah

Great Mosque of Sulaymaniyah - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Great Mosque of Sulaymaniyah (Arabic: مزگەوتی گەورەی سلێمانی) or Sulaymaniyah Grand Mosque (جامع السليمانية الكبير) is a historic mosque located in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. It is also known as Sheikh Ahmad Mosque because it contains the tomb of Haji Kaka Ahmad, a Kurdish cleric who was known for his donations of food to the needy. The mosque was founded in 1784 and built in 1785 by the Baban Emir Ibrahim Pasha Baban, and it also contains a shrine dedicated to Mahmud Barzanji, a Kurdish leader who fought against the British occupation of Iraq. It is regarded as the first mosque in Sulaymaniyah. Attached to the mosque building is the mausoleum for the Baban family, a powerful family of Emirs who assisted the Ottoman Empire in the Safavid-Ottoman War and built the modern city of Sulaymaniyah. Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
date from: 1785

Source: en.wikipedia.org