Al-Shawy Mosque
Among the Imams of the mosque was the prominent Iraqi jurist Sheikh Hashem Jamil who was also appointed preacher who worked in it for two years, and practiced public speaking there.
Description
The mosque is located next to the Jumhuriya Bridge on the Karkh side of Baghdad, near the Tigris river and near the Iranian embassy.
The main door is located southwest of the main street where the domes tower over the gate. Surat al-Ahzab is written around the dome in Kufic script written by calligrapher Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi. Inside, the Chapel of the mosque's sanctuary is octagonal in shape and small in size, and it has a big courtyard due to the large length of the mosque.
On top of it are more Quranic verses written by Calligrapher al-Baghdadi with the following also written next to it:
"This mosque was established by Mazhar Bey Bin Ahmed Bey al-Sadiq al-Shawy, to get closer to God Almighty and to seek His pleasure under the supervision of the architect Ibrahim Salih al-Obeidi, and it was completed in the year 1372 AH"
There are also rooms for the Imam and the muezzin and near the door, inside, there is a room containing the tomb of the builders.
See also
References
- ^ Ahmed al-Shawy Mosque
- ^ "The requested page does not exist". Archived from the original on 09-25-2022. View it on 10-16-2022
- ^ Al-Adhami, Waleed (19 November 2014). "The genius of Arabic calligraphy, Hashim Muhammad al-Baghdadi". almadasupplements.com (in Arabic).
- ^ "هاشم جميل". areq.net. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
- ^ Ra'ouf, Al-Bahrani (2009). Memoirs of Ra'ouf al-Bahrani: Glimpses into the situation of Iraq since the establishment of national rule in 1920 AD until 1963 AD (in Arabic). AIRP. p. 233. ISBN 978-9953-36-322-6.
- ^ جامع الشاوي
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