Place Institution Islam
Great Mosque of Samarra
المسجد الجامع في سامراء ar مسجد جامع سامرا fa
Mosque in Iraq
- Dated from 848 CE
A place,
and the traditions
recorded there.
Sites, not believers
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
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Al-MutawakkilNamed as founder 10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861)
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 848 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Great Mosque of Samarra, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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under 1 km awayAl-Askari Shrine
religious historical complex in Samarra, Iraq -
19 km awayAbu Delf Mosque
old mosque built in Samarra in 859 -
95 km awayKhafajah
archaeological site in Iraq -
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101 km awayAl-Kadhimiya Mosque
mosque in Iraq -
103 km awayAlasifia school
old Iraqi School and mosque built in the Ottoman Empire in 1608 -
103 km awayAbu Hanifa Mosque
mosque -
104 km awayUmm al-Qura Mosque
mosque in Baghdad, Iraq -
107 km awayBaba Nanak Shrine in Baghdad
sixteenth century monument commemorating visit of Guru Nanak in Baghdad and his inter-religious dialogue with Muslim Pirs
Connections
How Great Mosque of Samarra connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 1
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
4 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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