| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
District : Wadi Al-Salaam
|
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A group of shrines.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
District : Wadi Al-Salaam
|
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Cemetary road.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
Site / Event : Murals
|
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The city has many murals.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
Site / Event : Murals
|
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Anti war mural.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
Site / Event : Murals
|
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Political mural.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
Site / Event : Murals
|
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Bathtub mural.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
Site / Event : Murals
|
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Peace mural.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
Site / Event : Murals
|
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Mural with winged man.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
Site / Event : Murals
|
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Mural in underpass.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Najaf
Site / Event : Murals
|
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Tourism mural.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
|
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The city of Kufa.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
|
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Kufa is 10km from Najaf.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
|
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Kufa is a city of beautiful mosques.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
|
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The Al Mamali is one of the many mosques in the majority Shia city.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The Great Mosque is the most important in the city.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque dates from the 7th century.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Brick decorated gate.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The architecture of the mosque resembles a pre-Islamic Persian palace.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The tiled Eastern Gate.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Detail of the Eastern Gate.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The Great Mosque at Kufa is important as the place where Imam Ali (a cousin of the Prophet and one of the first converts to Islam) was assassinated in 661.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Two minarets and a decorated clock tower.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The golden dome tops one of the three tombs in the complex.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Column and lamp.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The cloisters have Byzantine influence.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Carpet.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque is very beautiful in the late afternoon sunlight.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Prayer time in the larger of two courtyards.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Prayer time at sunset.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Group of women.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Tower and minaret.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Woman.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The complex contains three tombs of nephews of Ali.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The tomb chambers are highly decorated.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Silver panels on one of the tombs.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Tomb chamber.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The tombs are made from gold and silver and bear Quranic inscriptions.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The tomb and its chamber.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The tombs are very spectacular.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Carpet.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Silver bars.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The tomb area from the women's section.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Women at the tomb.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Cloisters.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The second courtyard.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The second courtyard is an extension.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Shia Muslims believe that Noah's flood began here.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Cloisters and minaret.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The mosque is considered one of the most important for Shias.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Tower and blue dome.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The gate.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The minaret.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Tomb chamber window.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Tomb entrance.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Glass ceiling over a tomb entrance.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Gold and semi precious stones on a tomb.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Detail of a tomb.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The tomb chamber.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Tomb chamber ceiling decoration.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Dazzling tomb interior.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Praying in the tomb area.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The women's prayer room.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Cloisters with wooden ceiling.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Carved wooden door.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Prayer room outside the third tomb.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The wooden ceiling of the Prayer Room.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Women's prayer room outside the third tomb.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The carpets are Persian.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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The third tomb.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Silver bars.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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Woman at the tomb.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Kufa
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
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A group of women.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Central Mesopotamia
|
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Much of Central Mesopotamia is desert.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Central Mesopotamia
|
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Roadside mosque.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Central Mesopotamia
|
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Shia shrine in the desert.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Central Mesopotamia
|
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Canal.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Central Mesopotamia
|
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Cultivation near Nasariya between the two rivers.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
Region : Central Mesopotamia
|
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Mesopotamia is very flat.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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The city of Nasariya is on the Euphrates River.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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The Al-Rubaye Restaurant is at a strange angle.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Kebabs are popular in the city and come with Iraqi bread, soup and various dips and salads.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Iraqi bread has a distinctive shape.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Mazgouf eatery.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Mazgouf is flat fish grilled in a metal structure over a fire.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Mazgouf is the Iraqi national dish.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Preparing mazgouf.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Restaurant owner.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Kuba is minced meat in cracked wheat in a soup.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Hotel manager.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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The city centre at night.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Sweet shop.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Cakes.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Jewellers.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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The entrance to the night market.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Lights in the market.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Street selling electronics.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Nut seller.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Clothes market.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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Abandonded cinema, now a car park.
|
2022 |
| Iraq |
City / Town : Nasariya
|
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The Euphrates at night.
|
2022 |
were added from 1 February 2025.