Fire Breaks Out in Baghdad Mosque
According to Baghdad Today, firemen and civil defense forces have been dispatched to extinguish the blaze at Jami Al-Rahman Mosque.
The construction of Al-Rahman Mosque began in the late 1990s when Iraq was under economic sanctions.
It 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 the mosque was never completed.
It remains uncompleted in Baghdad’s Mansour neighborhood, in the place of the old race track. Its main, uncompleted dome, is surrounded by eight smaller, independent domes, which in turn feature eight even smaller domes integrated in their walls. It is approximately 250 meters in diameter, and occupies 4.5 hectares (11 acres).
