page_title: Abu Hanifa Mosque
section_title: Main hall
hierarchical_section_title: Abu Hanifa Mosque / Description / Main hall
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the main hall of the w:Abu Hanifa Mosque in w:Adhamiyah. العربية: الحرم الداخلي في مسجد أبو حنيفة النعمان في الأعظمية في بغداد، العراق
context_page_description: The Abu Hanifa Mosque also known as is one of the most prominent Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq.
  It is built around the tomb of Abu Hanifah an-Nu'man, the founder of the Hanafi madhhab or school of Islamic religious jurisprudence. It is in the al-Adhamiyah district of northern Baghdad, which is named after Abu Hanifa's reverential epithet Al-imām al-aʿẓam.
  American troops damaged it on April 11, 2003: its clock tower was hit by a rocket.
context_section_description: The main hall is a great rectangular hall with an area of 578 square metres (6,220 sq ft). It consists of eight marble pillars with a large dome on top of them with iron chains hanging from them to hold the chandeliers, with three other domes built around it on three rectangular pillars made of stone and plaster. The dome of the main hall is decorated with small accurate trappings, just like the doors and pillars. The walls are also covered with Jordanian marble, three meters above the ground. The main hall contained two niches covered with geometric motifs with four pillars built around them, decorated with gorgeous trappings and writings of Al-Baqara.
caption: Main hall of the mosque in 2014
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