Building the Jalil Khayat Mosque (c. Iraq 2007)

ISLAMIC ART & ARCHITECTURE
By F.A. Bhatti

IRAQ---The Jalil Khayat mosque, which resembles in style the Muhammad Ali mosque in Cairo and the Blue mosque in Istanbul, was inaugurated in Erbil on January 19, 2007. Erbil is the Capital City of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq. The mosque is built on an area of 15,000 square meters in the center of Erbil. It contains a large prayer hall that is 1,200 meters square and 45 meters high; it holds about 1,500 to 2,000 people. [link]