Title

Samarra, Iraq

Caption

Samarra, Iraq. Once the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th century. The famous spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra was built in 847 by Caliph al-Mutawakkil. The city went into rapid decline after the collapse of the Abbasid empire, but remains a place of pilgrimage for Muslims.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B36_320

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

32,6Mb (1,9Mb) / 10,8in x 11,7in / 3248 x 3508 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors city building buildings country medieval location outside B&W aerial view MONOCHROME Iraq Iraqi bird's eye view aerial photography black & white black and white B W Middle Ages English Heritage Samarra TGN photograph Unknown photograph