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Birmingham Jame Masjid was initially inaugurated as The President Saddam Hussein Mosque during the Holy month of Ramadhan (1408 Hijri), April 1988. The Masjid provides a place of worship for the local muslim community and is open throughout the year, providing access for the five daily prayers and 2 yearly Eid prayers.
The mosque is built of white limestone with blue mosaic decorations. Many architectural features of the mosque and the surrounding complex allude to Saddam Hussein or to the Gulf War (1990–1991). Western observers have described the mosque's eight minarets as resembling weapons, but the Iraqi government rejects that interpretation.
Al-Rahman Mosque (Arabic: جامع الرحمان; transliterates: Mosque of The Most Merciful) in Baghdad, was intended to be one of the largest mosques in Iraq. It was begun by Saddam Hussein in 1998, but work was cut short during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and it was never completed and
The Mosul Grand Mosque (Arabic: جامع الموصل الكبير) is an incomplete Sunni Islamic mosque located in Mosul, Iraq. The mosque is situated in the Taqafah district bordering the Tigris river near the Nineveh archeological site. Its construction started during the Saddam Hussein rule, but works were interrupted because of the ...
Baghdad (AFP) – It was meant to compete with the Taj Mahal in grandeur, but former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's monumental Al-Rahman Mosque project was never completed.
Saddam Hussein "wanted a mosque bigger than the Taj Mahal", he recalled. The Islamic Virtue Party has blocked government plans to turn the mosque into a university or museum, the official...
With Saddam Hussein on trial, his donation of $500,000 to help build a mosque in Calvert County, Md., has caused unexpected problems for the tiny Muslim community.
