Baghdad was also known as the Round City because ... in the 9th century in the city of Samarra. It was part of the Great Mosque of Samarra which was the largest mosque in the world at the time.

Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendours of ...

“Since its construction in the second half of the 12th century CE, al-Nuri Mosque was invested as Mosul’s Great Mosque ... as it expanded south toward Baghdad and the Sunni heartland between ...

Meanwhile, in twin bombings at Al-Rasoul Al-Adham mosque at Diyala bridge, 10 kilometres (six miles) south of Baghdad, five people were killed and 15 wounded as they left Friday prayers.