Only one was completed.
The unfinished Al-Rahman mosque in Baghdad.
The most chilling link to Saddam can be found inside the mosque.
The four outer minarets look like Scud missiles on launch pad.
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Umm al-Ma’arik mosque.
The inner minarets is said to look like the barrel of Kalashnikov rifles.
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Umm al-Ma’arik mosque.
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Umm al-Ma’arik mosque.
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Saddams other two mosques couldnt be completed on time.
It would have been a replica of the Umm al-Ma’arik mosque, but five times larger.
Its dome would have been 60 meters high and 300 meters across.
Surrounding the mosque there would have been eight towers, each 200 meters tall.
Construction of this mosque didnt progress much when the Gulf War broke out.
By then, only a few columns had been erected.
The unfinished mosque will now be redesigned into a parliament building.
The third and the last of Saddams follies is the Al-Rahman mosque, meaning “The Most Merciful mosque.
Giant metal cranes hang motionless over the half-built structure as if the mosque is still in construction.
The mosque has been in this state of abandon since 2003.
Related reading:Al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad
Al-Rahman mosque.
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Al-Rahman mosque.
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