List of mosques in Iraq

This is a list of mosques in Iraq. There are 7,000 Sunni mosques and 3,500 Shia mosques in Iraq as a whole.^[1] According to the Office of Waqf and Sunnah in Iraq, in the capital city of Baghdad, there are 912 Jama Masjids that conduct Friday Prayer and 149 smaller mosques which only hold regular daily prayers.^[2] In Fallujah, there are 970 mosques according to the 2009 data.^[3]

List

Name	Location	Year	Branch	Remarks
Imam Ali Mosque (Basra)	Basra	635	Sh
Umayyad Mosque of Mosul (Al-Musaffi Mosque)	Mosul	637	Su	Demolished and rebuilt
Great Mosque of Kufa	Kūfa	639	Sh	The mosque entombs the remains of Muslim ibn ‘Aqīl, Hānī ibn ‘Urwa, and Mukhtār al-Thaqafī, along with having many sites of historical relevance within the mosque.
Al-Sahlah Mosque	Kūfa	656–660	Sh	Believed to be the future home of Muhammad al-Mahdi.
Imām Husayn Mosque	Karbalā	680	Sh	Entombs the remains of Shī‘ah Imām Husayn ibn ‘Alī, his sons ‘Alī al-Akbar and ‘Alī al-Asghar, those who fell at Karbalā, Habīb ibn Madhāhir al-Asadī, and Ibrāhīm al-Mujāb (son of Mūsā al-Kādhim)
Great Mosque (Aqrah)	Aqrah	7th century	Su
Al Abbas Mosque	Karbalā	7th century	Sh	Entombs the remains of ‘Abbās ibn ‘Alī, brother of Shī‘ah Imām Husayn ibn ‘Alī.
Mausoleum of Yahya Abu al-Qasim	Mosul	799	Sh	Entombs the remains of Abu'l Qasim Yahya ibn al-Hasan. Destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in 2014.
Great Mosque of Samarra	Sāmarrā'	851	Su
Abu Dulaf Mosque	Sāmarrā'	859	Su
Al-Khulafa Mosque	Baghdād	902–908	Su^[4]	Oldest existing mosque in Baghdad, although renovated for numerous times. The minaret dates back to the Abbasid era.
Al-Kadhimiya Mosque	Baghdād	915	Sh	Entombs the remains of two Twelver Shī‘ah Imāms: Mūsā al-Kādhim and Muhammad al-Taqī.
Al-'Askari Mosque	Sāmarrā'	944	Sh	Entombs the remains of Twelver Shī'ah Imāms, 'Alī an-Naqī and his son Hasan al-'Askarī, as well as Narjis Khātūn and Hakimah Khātūn.
Imam Ali Shrine	Najaf	977	Sh	Entombs the remains of the first Shī'ah Imām, Alī ibn Abī Tālib.
Minaret of Anah	Anah	996–1096	Su	Destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in 2016.
Al-Hannanah Mosque	Kūfa-Najaf metropolis	997–1041	Sh	Believed to be keeping the head of Husayn ibn Ali
Abu Hanifa Mosque	Baghdād	10th century	Su	Entombs the remains of Abū Ḥanīfah an-Nuʿmān.
Shrine of the Forty	Tikrit	11th century	Su	Entombs the remains of Amr ibn Junayda Al-Ghafari. Demolished in 2014 and undergoing restoration.
Al-Mujahidi Mosque	Mosul	1133	Su	Destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in 2014–2015.
Great Mosque of Amadiya	Amadiya	1177	Su
Mausoleum of Imam al-Hasan of Basra	Basra	1185	Su	Entombs the remains of Hasan of Basra
Imam Saad bin Aqil' Shrine	Tal Afar	1142	Sh	Entombs the remains of a governor of the Upper Mesopotamia.
Great Mosque of al-Nuri	Mosul	1172–1173	Su	The minaret and mosque was destroyed in 2017 during the Battle of Mosul; reconstructed and reopened in 2024.
Mashhad Radd al-Shams	Hillah	1190	Sh	Formerly a Babylonian temple, now a shrine believed to be the spot where the event of Radd al-Shams occurred.
Al-Sarai Mosque (King Ghazi Mosque)	Baghdād	1193	Su
Haydar-Khana Mosque	Baghdād	12th century	Su	Established in the 12th century and rebuilt in 1819
Mausoleum of Abdul-Qadir Gilani	Baghdād	12th century	Su	Originally built as mausoleum. Preserves the tomb of Abdul Qadir Gilan, the founder of Qadiriyya Sufi order
Mausoleum of Umar Suhrawardi	Baghdād	12th century	Su	Originally built as mausoleum. Preserves the tomb of Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi, the founder of Suhrawardiyya Sufi order
Al-Imam Muhsin Mosque	Mosul	12th century	Su	Damaged by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in 2015.
Imam al-Baher Mosque	Mosul	12th–13th centuries	Su	Formerly a tomb for Imam Al-Baher which no longer exists after the reconstruction in 2022.
Zumurrud Khatun Mosque	Baghdād	1202	Su	Originally built as mausoleum. The minaret is considered the oldest surviving in Baghdad.^[5]
Mudhafaria Minaret	Erbil	1232	Su
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque	Sinjar	1239	Sh	Contains a shrine dedicated to a daughter of Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin.
Qamariya Mosque	Baghdad	1242
Mausoleum of Ahmad al-Rifa'i	Al-Rifa'i District	before 1325	Su	Entombs the remains of Ahmad al-Rifa'i, the founder of the Rifa'i tariqah.
Murjan Mosque	Baghdād	1356	Su
Al-Nukhailah Mosque	Al Kifl	1309	Sh	Contains Dhu'l Kifl Shrine, which houses the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel.
Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque	Mosul	1365	Su	Destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in 2014.
17th of Ramadan Mosque	Baghdad	20th century	Sh	Went by many names throughout its history.
Al-Ahmadiya Mosque	Baghdād	1796	Su
Al-Asifyah Mosque	Baghdād	1608	Su
Ezra's Tomb	Maysan Governorate	1768	Sh
Ibn Bunnieh Mosque	Baghdād	1973	Sh
Al-Khilani Mosque	Baghdād	?	Sh	Originally built as mausoleum. Preserves the tomb of Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Uthman, the second of The Four Deputies in Twelver Shia Islam
Jalil Khayat Mosque	Erbil	1997	Su
Mausoleum of Kumayl ibn Ziyad	Najaf	1950	Sh
Sheikh Jawad Al-Sadiq Mosque	Tal Afar	?	Sh	It was destroyed in 2014 by ISIL.
Al-Maqam Mosque	Basra	1754	Sh
Mausoleum of Maytham al-Tammar	Kūfa	?	Sh
Mosul Grand Mosque	Mosul	incomplete	Su	When completed, will be the largest mosque in Mosul.
Mosque of the Prophet Daniel	Kirkuk	15th century	Sh	Located inside the Kirkuk Citadel. Contains the tombs of Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. Mishael's tomb is currently no longer present in the structure.
Mosque of the Prophet Seth	Mosul	1791	Su	Destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in 2014.
Al-Rahman mosque	Baghdād	incomplete	Sh	uncompleted, construction halted
Mosque of Salman al-Farsi	Salman Pak	1950	Sh	Formerly a Sunni mosque, transferred to the Shi'ite management in the 21st century. Built around the purported mausoleum of Salman al-Farsi in 1950.
Mausoleum of Sayyid Ali al-Zaki	Al-Kahla District	2017	Sh	Contains the tomb of Sayyid Ali al-Zaki, a 10th-century Muslim scholar.
Great Mosque of Sulaymaniyah	Sulaymaniyah	1784	Su	First mosque in Sulaymaniyah. Entombs the remains of local cleric Haji Kaka Ahmad and his grandson Mahmud Barzanji. It contains a cafeteria where meals for the needy are served.
Said Sultan Ali Mosque	Baghdād	1590	Su
Shaykh Rajab Mosque	Rawa	1625	Su
Imam Sultan Saqi Shrine	Kirkuk	?	Sh	Historic site in Kirkuk which also includes a cemetery around it.
Umm al-Tabul Mosque	Baghdād	1968	Su	Built in commemoration of the officers participating in the 1959 Mosul uprising.
Umm al-Qura Mosque	Baghdād	2001	Su
Al-Wazeer Mosque	Baghdād	1660	Su
Al-Hamra Mosque	Kufa	7th century; 2018 reconstruction	Sh	One of the oldest mosques in Kufa, it includes a small shrine dedicated to biblical Jonah (Prophet Yunus).