page_title: Abu Hanifa Mosque
section_title: Ottoman era
hierarchical_section_title: Abu Hanifa Mosque / History / Ottoman era
caption_attribution_description: العربية: مشهد لجامع الإمام ابي حنيفة في الأعظمية في بغداد في العهد الملكي بعقد الخمسينيات English: An outer view of Abu Hanifa mosque in Adhamiyah, Baghdad in 1950s
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: After the invasion of Baghdad by the Safavid dynasty in 1508, Abu Hanifa mosque and school were destroyed and abolished, due to sectarian conflicts that the Safavids had. The Ottomans invaded Baghdad in 1534 and replaced the Shi'ite Safavid with the Sunni Ottoman rule. Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent first visited, after invading Iraq, Najaf and Karbala. And then, he visited the abolished mosque of Abu Hanifa and ordered to rebuild it and recover all the damages. Along with recovering the mosque, they also added new features to it, like a minaret, a hall, a bathroom, from 50 to 140 shops and the dome that they rebuilt was a dome that was never seen like it before. They also built a square fortress around the mosque and a watchtower. The fortress was armed with 150 soldiers with different military equipment.
caption: Abu Hanifa Mosque in 1950s
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