Mosques and shrines of Mosul, Mosul

Name: Mosques and shrines of Mosul
Address: Mosul, Iraq

#5 among attractions in Mosul

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The Islamic Sites of Mosul, Iraq, are of varied ages, the oldest being the Umayyad Mosque from 640 AD. and the modern being the Mosul Grand Mosque. ()

Local name: قائمة مساجد الموصلCoordinates: 36°20'53"N, 43°9'35"E

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Mosul Iraq

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Mosques and shrines of Mosul – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Nineveh, Mosul Museum, Mosul Grand Mosque, Library of Ashurbanipal.

0.7 miN
City, Archaeological site
Nineveh, Mosul
19 min walk • Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as well as the largest city in the world for several decades.
1.3 miSW
Museum
Mosul Museum, Mosul
35 min walk • The Mosul Museum is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It was heavily looted during the 2003 Iraq War. Founded in 1952, the museum consisted of a small hall until a new building was opened in 1972, containing ancient Assyrian artifacts.
1.2 miNW
Mosque
Mosul Grand Mosque, Mosul
31 min walk • The Mosul Grand Mosque is an incomplete Sunni Islamic mosque located in Mosul, Iraq. The mosque is situated in the Taqafah district bordering the Tigris river near the Nineveh archeological site.
0.9 miNW
Library, Greek Revival architecture
Library of Ashurbanipal, Mosul
23 min walk • The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC, including texts in various languages.