Al Muradiya Mosque

Al Muradiya — also known as the Murad Pasha Mosque — sits at the northern end of Rashid Street, close to the old Maydan Square in east Baghdad. An inscription above the main entrance attributes its founding to Murad Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Baghdad, in 1578. The building's signature is its silhouette of seven domes resting on slender marble columns and connected by pointed arches; the central dome, hemispherical and slightly flattened, is famously nicknamed 'the Chinese dome' because of the serrated edge along its periphery. The minaret is widely considered the most beautiful in Baghdad — built in the classic Abbasid style rather than an Ottoman one, despite the mosque's Ottoman commission. The complex has been the subject of recent restoration campaigns by the Sunni Endowment Office alongside Al Murjan, Al Ahmadiya, and the Uzbek Mosque.