9 Best Places To Visit in Iraq Before You Die


5. Great Mosque Samarra

This is the former largest mosque on earth. The spiral design is quite mesmerizing and is its only remains. You can imagine this marvelous structure being the center of the grand mosque. Around the 11th century the mosque was destroyed and abandoned. Today it lives through the people that wander its once former glorious site.

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4. Masjid Ali

Also known as Imam Ali Mosque, the Shia followers, adding up to millions, revere this site. It’s their third holiest and is said to boast the remains of the first Imam.