Umm-al-Qura-Moschee

Umm al-Qura Mosque is a large Sunni mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, on the Karkh side of the city. Completed in 2001, it counts among the big modern mosques of Iraq. Its name, meaning "Mother of Cities", is an epithet of Mecca and also recalls a phrase in the Quran (6:92). Sources describe it as the largest mosque in Baghdad and as the centre of the city's mosque administration. Today the mosque hosts the five daily prayers, the Friday prayer and the Eid prayers.

Construction of the mosque began in late 1999, during the rule of Saddam Hussein. It was completed in April 2001, at a reported cost of about 7.5 million US dollars.

It was first known as Umm al-Maarik ("Mother of All Battles"), the official Iraqi name for the Second Gulf War. After the American-led invasion of 2003 it was renamed Umm al-Qura and became the headquarters of the Association of Muslim Scholars. In 2012 the buildings were occupied by the presidency of the Sunni Endowment Diwan.