{
 "id": "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الجامع الكبير بسامراء",
  "en": "Great Mosque of Samarra"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أكبر جامع في العالم في زمنه (851) بمئذنته الحلزونية «الملوية» العباسية في سامراء.",
  "en": "The world's largest mosque of its age (851) with the spiral 'Malwiya' minaret in Abbasid Samarra."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 8510.000136895349,
  "latest": 8519.99897328484
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "851",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "built": {
   "edtf": "851",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q593115"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture lane; existence/year via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الجامع الكبير في [[place/samarra|سامراء]] بناه المعتصم والمتوكل سنة 851م؛ كان في زمانه أكبر مسجد في العالم بصحنه الفسيح، وبقيت منه مئذنته الحلزونية الشهيرة «الملوية». {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "رمز سامراء والعمارة العباسية؛ طبعت صورة الملوية على العملة العراقية. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Great Mosque of [[place/samarra|Samarra]], built by al-Mu'tasim and al-Mutawakkil in 851. In its time it was the largest mosque in the world with its wide courtyard; its spiral minaret, the famous Malwiya, remains. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "A symbol of Samarra and of Abbasid architecture; the image of the Malwiya was printed on the Iraqi currency. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "[[place/samarra|سامرا]] کی جامع مسجد الکبیر کو المعتصم اور المتوکل نے سنہ 851ء میں بنایا؛ اپنے زمانے میں اپنے وسیع صحن کے باعث یہ دنیا کی سب سے بڑی مسجد تھی، اور اس کا مشہور چکر دار مینار «الملویہ» باقی ہے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر",
     "markdown": "سامرا اور عباسی فن تعمیر کی علامت؛ ملویہ کی تصویر عراقی کرنسی پر چھاپی گئی۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/abu-dulaf-mosque-samarra",
  "building/adana-great-mosque",
  "building/ahi-celebi-mosque",
  "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
  "building/al-attarine-madrasa",
  "building/al-janad-mosque",
  "building/al-mansur-mosque-marrakesh",
  "building/al-muayyad-mosque-cairo"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}