Saddam Mosque

Aren't they going to change the name ??

indeed they will but my question is where are the money comming now that the political status of the country has changed ?? :gossip:

Saddam mosque!, he is executed man.

Irrespective of its name.. its does look a very magnificient piece of architecture. Ancient persian

Amazing, go Saddam go :applause:





:crazy:

That cant possibly be the name.

It is the name unless they've figured out a new one. Saddam was responsible for the having it built (up to now anyways), and obviously that ego maniac named it after himself.

oh no, another tall mosque :ohno::D:D
but the architecture is magnificent! how tall is the dome? hit 200m??

This is a tallest structure in Baghdad, before was television mast, 207m,

Skyscraperpage.com:

Saddam Mosque

Baghdad Iraq


Status: on-hold
Construction Dates
Began 1999
Finished 2015
Building Uses
- religious
Structural Types
- lowrise
- atrium
- dome
- tower
Architectural Style
- islamic style


Heights Value Source / Comments

Spire 280.0 m


Roof 270.0 m


Smaller towers 210.0 m


The construction finished in 2015 & the construction began in 1999

It's beautifoul & impresionant!! :) :
http://www.xie-dalpe.com/Pictures/Military/Saddam_Husseins_Mosque.JPG

Great rendering. The mosque seems to look a little byzantine style looking.

^^ is it a rendering! :eek2::eek::eek:

Irrespective of its name.. its does look a very magnificient piece of architecture. Ancient persian

Persian (Iran) architecture in Irak?:weird:

btw, it looks more like 280 feet instead of meters

very gigantic mosque!

btw, it looks more like 280 feet instead of meters
No, I belive are meters.... It has 919ft....

Concentrate on the difference with other buildings, in addition still it is not finished....:)

This is a fake.

This is a fake.

Oh?
Gee, I thought it had been renamed the Al-Rahman Mosque and that this project was very real and still under construction.
But since you say it's a fake, myself and others must be mistaken

It isn't fake. The picture can be found here (http://www.xie-dalpe.com/military.htm). But there are two large mosques u/c in Bagdad, and i don't know which is which.

One king-size mosque can be found in Google Earth here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=%2B33%C2%B0+19'+30.00%22,+%2B44%C2%B0+25'+19.20%22&ie=UTF8&ll=33.311442,44.349838&spn=0.003004,0.004946&t=k&z=18&om=1). As you can see, this isn't fake at all.

But here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=%2B33%C2%B0+19'+30.00%22,+%2B44%C2%B0+25'+19.20%22&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=33.324778,44.370764&spn=0.003039,0.004946&z=18) we can see another big one u/c.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/7586/baghdadmosque031106f723ij7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4239/dgbaghdadmosquesoverviebu9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

^^ The first photo looks like they're constructing a mansion housing a centibillionaire*.

* Centibillionaire-a person having $100,000,000,000.

Well, Saddam and his family weren't poor. ;)

This one is pretty cool.
The mosque of the "Mother of all Battles"
Four of its minarets resemble the barrels of Kalashnikov rifles. Another four look like Scud missiles, and the similarities are not a mistake.

http://www.ifapray.org/images/Photos_Gen/SaddamMosque_CBSPhoto.jpghttp://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/MOABM.jpg

no way is that 280metres more like 100 at most. its not even a skyscraper

This one is pretty cool.
The mosque of the "Mother of all Battles"
Four of its minarets resemble the barrels of Kalashnikov rifles. Another four look like Scud missiles, and the similarities are not a mistake.

http://www.ifapray.org/images/Photos_Gen/SaddamMosque_CBSPhoto.jpghttp://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/MOABM.jpg

isnt that a bit far-fetched

Very nice.. any update?

amazing mosques are under construction around the world.

maybe Baghdad will once again see its golden period that it had enjoyed during the Islamic golden age, well, maybe not quite.

Aren't they going to change the name ??

Too late. Too much paperwork.

Persian (Iran) architecture in Irak?:weird:

btw, it looks more like 280 feet instead of meters

dont think you know your history, Majority of population in Iraq is Shieite which is essentially means they are Iranian, where as Sadam and his cronies were sunis,

If the popolation had their way and history is repeated then Iraq wiould rejoin with Iran (persia) as per the borders prior to 1914-18 when England and France devided up the middle east to suit their political agendss hense the palistian/isreali issues, the lebanese Syrian issues the Iran iraq issues and the turk kurd issues.

Read a book on the middle east called the great war for civilisation by Robert Fisk and see where 90% of the current problems in the ME origionat from

Brilliant mosque, Is anything being built atm? Or is it all stopped ?

updates plz

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/7586/baghdadmosque031106f723ij7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)



One mosque to rule them all...

no way is that 280metres more like 100 at most. its not even a skyscraper

hater.

One mosque to rule them all...

yeah its just so wierd even 4 a muslim. i mean i have not seen seperate ones in my country but i guess we have masterpieces of our own in kuwait.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/7amani/IMG_0312.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/3202397206_8dfa3b1cae_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3485/3202394012_a25b3938c4_o.jpg

http://www.altheqa.biz/images/kuwait/02.jpg
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8643/mbmosque03.jpg

this is al Rahman mosque; the Saddam mosque is massive support columns and cranes (the one at the top of the satellite)

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/7586/baghdadmosque031106f723ij7.jpg

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4239/dgbaghdadmosquesoverviebu9.jpg

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Wow! Amazing architecture. Very unique!

looks beautiful!!!

What is the current status of this project?

What is the current status of this project?

al Rahman mosque - on hold; about 2 years needed for completion

Saddam mosque - on hold indefinitely?

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Saddam mosque site in background (at old Baghdad airport site) (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wj09M0UunN0/Rq-hYOmLNBI/AAAAAAAAAc0/hxrFZWLYfgw/s1600-h/Saddam+Mosque+construction-small.JPG)



al Rahman (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wj09M0UunN0/Rq-gdumLM7I/AAAAAAAAAcE/qV9lfwuVCbw/s1600-h/al+Rahman+mosque+2-small.JPG)



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some construction photos circa 2001 by Uruk construction of al Rahman mosque (http://urukcompany.com/project8.htm)

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i doubt it can even reach 200m.

any pictures of what either of these are supposed to look like when finished?

any pictures of what either of these are supposed to look like when finished?

i know there's a rendering of the Saddam mosque on skyscraperpage's diagrams.

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waste of money... why not build schools, hospitals, factories....

Architecture is okay tough.

its a huge mosque

looks useless... like all of them..

looks useless... like all of them..
:ohno:

looks useless... like all of them..

fail.

waste of money... why not build schools, hospitals, factories....

Architecture is okay tough.


I agree!

It isn't fake. The picture can be found here (http://www.xie-dalpe.com/military.htm). But there are two large mosques u/c in Bagdad, and i don't know which is which.

One king-size mosque can be found in Google Earth here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=%2B33%C2%B0+19'+30.00%22,+%2B44%C2%B0+25'+19.20%22&ie=UTF8&ll=33.311442,44.349838&spn=0.003004,0.004946&t=k&z=18&om=1). As you can see, this isn't fake at all.

But here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=%2B33%C2%B0+19'+30.00%22,+%2B44%C2%B0+25'+19.20%22&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=33.324778,44.370764&spn=0.003039,0.004946&z=18) we can see another big one u/c.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/7586/baghdadmosque031106f723ij7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


when I first saw this, I immediately thought of Tatooine from 'Star Wars'!:)

What a waste of money, resources, and brain power. Surely humanity can do better than build monuments to some mythical deity?

At least add a little color?

http://www.bucknell.edu/Images/Depts/Classics/blue-mosque.jpg

What a waste of money, resources, and brain power. Surely humanity can do better than build monuments to some mythical deity?

At least add a little color?





I totally agree!

looks useless... like all of them..

Seriously man, is that something nice to say here?!!
I don't think you really here to talk about buildings!!
I hope it makes u feel good, because otherwise u sound u have sooo much problems you have to deal with other than your ignorance!!

is construction on hold?

waste of money... why not build schools, hospitals, factories....

Architecture is okay tough.

Don't want to turn this into another topic, but a mosque of this magnitude is not built for the sake of art. Look at the political message behind it in hindsight of the sectarian division and battles within Iraq. Then you will understand why it is being built probably before schools and hospitals and others.

BTW why doesn't those that destroyed Iraq build schools and other needed facilities. Baghdad gets less water than it used to in the times of Saddam.

Don't want to turn this into another topic, but a mosque of this magnitude is not built for the sake of art. Look at the political message behind it in hindsight of the sectarian division and battles within Iraq. Then you will understand why it is being built probably before schools and hospitals and others.

BTW why doesn't those that destroyed Iraq build schools and other needed facilities. Baghdad gets less water than it used to in the times of Saddam.

I would argue that religious commissioning has created many of the greatest works of art and architecture ever... no matter what the underlying motive was. That being said, it's a shame that religion in the end, just causes wars. People just want stability. If there is a separation of church and state and people are free to choose their religion, only then can people truly work together to advance society. Humanity is much more important than any single religious theory.

If you do believe that there is a god do you believe the world that we live in, with waring factions of religious zealots, is what he had in mind for us?

Very interesting architecture. I hope that someday it can be made into an incredible public university.

looks useless... like all of them..
Agreed. The whole region is in a lot of difficulty and they're wasting money and oversized mosque. Sure it looks pretty, but that's not a good reason to build something of this calibre.

Don't want to turn this into another topic, but a mosque of this magnitude is not built for the sake of art. Look at the political message behind it in hindsight of the sectarian division and battles within Iraq. Then you will understand why it is being built probably before schools and hospitals and others.

BTW why doesn't those that destroyed Iraq build schools and other needed facilities. Baghdad gets less water than it used to in the times of Saddam.

I don't exactly get what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that this mosque would bring the different divisions of Islam together? Because only the opposite is true. When two sects of a religion are at war, stroking their beliefs only increases the fighting. It isn't like they're going to walk into that mosque to learn how to get along.

At the moment Iraq needs Hospitals, schools, housing, etc i think its waste of money to build this mosque.

I found this picture in flickr

Ar Rahman Mosque in Baghdad - Iraq
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2770/4278039529_c35f4087d0_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2637/4224015119_781b69603a_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/106282150_41368bda50_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/2795572830_779a4c879a_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/167907899_ca164ceac8_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/167907166_54181256d4_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/2137324564_926d82f9f8_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/4204620654_e2509ebbe7_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2211/2331199822_8d7b0cafa8_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/4038089966_eaf77c5103_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1164/656503108_f7b4c8d3cd_o.jpg

and the other mosque

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1179/906806205_a3e1f2ddb9_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2672/4200573547_6537bb2283_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4201247128_b4964facca_b.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8180/rtyeu.png

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2451/3960642300_7ff7660fa1_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3538/3508233834_1a1d0207c4_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3599/3325314219_847ec0232c_b.jpg
bigger:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/3325314219/sizes/o/

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9798/70256643.png

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/2267424888_de6d9dbef2_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1419/1255818307_39bdc8ea2f_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/364732769_9697d60005_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/364732769_9697d60005_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/85/222829579_f178723c66_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/114182485_7df5f8b09e_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1316/1372190397_56c1f38d38_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1145/1444742016_9b4fbf9918_o.jpg

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5021/fhh.png

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6089851.jpg


http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/19052438.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/4089282.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/15804075.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16386270.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1355273.jpg


http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/11649166.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/19468016.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1371779.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/4970790.jpg

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/518/fhhfgjjbmp.jpg

http://www.masjidlocator.net/images/stories/frontpage/saddam_mosque/2.jpg

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9228/mosque.jpg

All previous images are from the Ar-Rahman mosque, and these are from saddam mosque

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3558/dfhh.png

http://www.masjidlocator.net/images/stories/frontpage/saddam_mosque/3.jpg

http://www.masjidlocator.net/images/stories/frontpage/saddam_mosque/4.jpg

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5805/fdfh.png

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/381255366_5615cddd76_o.jpg

do you people only think about mosques djeezes -___-' waste of money
can't believe that you don't use it for medical things or whatever

^^
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=316061&page=20

do you people only think about mosques djeezes -___-' waste of money
can't believe that you don't use it for medical things or whatever

I don't think thats the right approach to it. These mosques probably get funding from rich investors from other countries. It's not as simple as: "Hmmm we have 1 million dollar, should we spend it on a mosque or on a hospital." Hospitals are getting build too but those aren't updated all the time. The mosques are very big and just get a lot of attention.

this is the model of Saddam Mosque

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6578/agrandmosque.jpg

I have a quesrtion why is it called Saddam Mosque it's seems the iraqis miss him or something

^^ because, those mosques are not under construction, and the mosques were planned by saddam, so when the war started, the constructrion of mosques was cancelled, or it seems by the pictures

al Rahman mosque is kept by a Shia cleric according to several news articles; Saddam mosque...who knows.

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http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/518/fhhfgjjbmp.jpg

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http://img.over-blog.com/469x390/0/42/98/73/img-1805.jpg

amazing image. This looks like an impressive postmodern ruin:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/381255366_5615cddd76_o.jpg

Big waste of money, time, materials, effort. Huge useless project, they can use the money in upgrading the crumbled infrastructure or building new housing projects.

Looks like something out of Naboo...

Oh and with this whole "mosques are a waste of money", imagine if they never built St. Patrick's cathedral in Manhattan, or St. Peter's basilica in Rome.

Or if Frank Lloyd Wright never built the Unity Temple in Oak Park. Or Gaudi never designed the Sagarada Familia in Barcelona.

I'm an atheist but it is astonishing to me how many people on these boards think that zero arcitectural wonder or good use can come out of religious buildings.

I have a quesrtion why is it called Saddam Mosque it's seems the iraqis miss him or something

we all do in our on way :nuts:

erm these mosques are currently not under construction...and may not ever be completed..

they should leave it as is and make it into a park and have those towers stand as sculptural details

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/518/fhhfgjjbmp.jpg

Somehow it reminds me Dune II

http://www.myabandonware.com/media/captures/D/dune-ii-the-building-of-a-dynasty/dune-ii-the-building-of-a-dynasty_19.gif

.. its does look a very magnificient piece of architecture. Ancient persian

:ohno:

There is no such a thing ... consult your Art History books!

This is Islamic Architecture pure and true to its origin!

It's not so much a disrespect for architectural wonder as it is an acknowledgement of priorities.

Yes the mosque looks like it would be an amazing piece of architecture when (if) it is completed, but it's hardly something that the people of Iraq really need right now. And in Iraq, something that isn't in need is pretty rare.

you have to consider the context under which it was being built...Iraq's economy at that time was good, let's hope it recovers so Al-Rahman mosque can be finished or turned into a museum or something useful that all Iraqis can use

ny1 know what going on with this?