Shabandar Mosque
The Shabandar Mosque is a Sunni mosque located in al-Adhamiyah district of the city of Baghdad, in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq. The mosque was completed in 1902 CE, by the Iraqi Arab Shabandar family, an important wealthy merchant and philanthropic family in Iraq that built several mosques.
History
By the late Ottoman period, the Shabandar family gained prominence in Iraq for being wealthy merchants and used their wealth to construct several mosques around Baghdad, including the Shabandar Mosque in al-Adhamiyya area, named after the family itself.Built in 1902 by the philanthropist Mahmoud Ibrahim al-Shabandar, the mosque can accommodate at least 140 worshippers within its. Its summer prayer hall, or musalla, can accommodate at least 50 worshippers.
In 1906, Mahmoud Ibrahim al-Shabandar died, and he was buried in the garden of the mosque. The mosque also experienced a major renovation in 1938. Currently, the mosque does not have any endowments, but the funding for restoration or repairs is done by the current member of the Shabandar family, Sayyid Sa'eed Ibrahim al-Shabandar.