The lighthouse of the mosque was one of the most prominent features of the Abbasid architectural civilization. It is unique among the minarets of the Islamic world in the architectural style. The lighthouse was built in a spiral shape of plaster and clay bricks. Its total height is about 52 meters. It is 27.25 meters from the northern wall The mosque, located on the central axis of the mosque’s mihrab, is located on a 33-meter square base, 4.2 meters high and decorated with nine-pointed hooves. It is topped by a five-tiered cylindrical building whose capacity decreases upward and is surrounded by a two- The minaret and anti-clockwise and the number of degrees of 399 degrees. At the top of the summit is a layer called by the people of Samarra “Baljun” and this layer was raised by the muezzin and then raise the adhaan.
The Mosque of the minaret of the historical monuments and one of the most prominent features of the Abbasid era in the city of Samarra, where the effects are seen so far and resist all the factors of natural destruction over the centuries.
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