Abu Hanifa Mosque

The Abu Hanifa - Mosque ( Arabic مسجد أبو حنيفة, DMG Masǧid Abu Hanifah ) is the most famous Sunni mosque in Baghdad. It was built by the Ottomans during their lasting over four hundred year reign in Iraq near Abu Hanifa's grave, one of the founder of the Hanafi school of law. It is also called al - Imaam al - Masǧid A'zam ( Mosque of the Greatest Imam ) al - Imam al - A'zam is the greatest Imam, such as Abu Hanifa is called by his followers. The mosque is located Adamiya district -Baghdad (northern Baghdad ). The Abu Hanifa Mosque, is considered a very important place for Sunni Muslims, especially for Hanafi, including the inhabitants of the district Adamiya belong. In the past, the mosque and the neighborhood were always a scene of fighting between Iraqi insurgents and U.S. troops.

On 19 November 2004, the U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces conducted a raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque - during a prayer, in which four Iraqis were killed. The attack came after a religious scholar had asked at the mosque to fight the U.S. forces and the Iraqi government one week. Many Sunni Iraqis have criticized the operation because the mosque is particularly sacred and one of the most important people of Sunni Islam is buried there. As a further reaction called religious scholars on to boycott the upcoming elections. November 23, 2006 terrorists fired ten mortar shells on the Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque -, it was at least one person killed and seven injured.

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