Stairway of the minaret of the Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq, 1977.

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Stairway of the minaret of the Great Mosque, Samarra, Iraq, 1977. This great spiral minaret was built in the mid 9th century by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil.

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Size: 3385px × 5163px
Photo credit: © VIVIENNE SHARP / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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