Al Mawşil al Jadīdah

Worth seeing in and around Al Mawşil al Jadīdah

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Library of Ashurbanipal

   The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds and in various languages from the 7th century BCE. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh. Ashurbanipal's Library gives modern historians information regarding people of the ancient Near East.

   5.2 km · library · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Great Mosque of al-Nuri

   The Great Mosque of al-Nuri, also known as the Nouri Mosque, is a Sunni mosque in Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq, famous for its leaning minaret, which gave the city its nickname "the hunchback". Tradition holds that the mosque was built in the late 12th century, although it underwent many renovations over the years.

   2.2 km · mosque in Iraq · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Dair Mar Elia

   The Monastery of Saint Elijah, or Dair Mar Elia, was located in Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Established in the late 6th century, it was one of Iraq's oldest monasteries.

   5 km · abandoned Christian monastery in Iraq · Wikipedia
4. 04
   University of Mosul

   The University of Mosul is a public university located in Mosul. It is one of the largest educational and research centers in the Middle East, and the second largest in Iraq, behind the University of Baghdad.

   5.9 km · Public university in Iraq · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Mosul Museum

   The Mosul Museum is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It was heavily looted during the 2003 Iraq War.

   3.1 km · archaeological museum in Mosul, Iraq · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Bash Tapia Castle

   Bash Tapia Castle, also known as Bashtabiya Castle or Pashtabia Castle, is a ruined 12th-century castle located on the western bank of the Tigris river, forming part of the city wall of Mosul, Iraq. It was partially destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in April 2015.

   2.9 km · castle in Iraq · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Mosque of the Prophet Yunus

   Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque, also known as the Mosque of the Prophet Jonah, and the Shrine of Nabi Yunis, was a historic Sunni congregational mosque and shrine, partially destroyed in 2014, that was located in Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. It contained a tomb believed to be that of the Abrahamic prophet Jonah, known as Yunus by Muslims.

   5.1 km · mosque in Nineveh, Mosul · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Tarbisu

   Tarbiṣu was an ancient city about 3 miles north of Nineveh.

   5.7 km · archaeological site in Iraq · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Saint George Mosque

   The Al-Nabi Jirjis Mosque is a mosque located in Mosul, Iraq. It is named after Saint George, known in Islamic tradition as Jirjis, who is believed by locals to be buried in the mausoleum attached to the mosque.

   2.6 km · Mosque in Mosul, Iraq · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Mosul Grand Mosque

    The Mosul Grand Mosque is an incomplete Sunni mosque located in Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. It is situated in the Taqafah district, bordering the Tigris river near the Nineveh archeological site.

    4.2 km · mosque in Iraq · Wikipedia

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Getting to Al Mawşil al Jadīdah

Airports

Erbil (EBL), 76 km · Kirkuk (KIK), 147 km

Stations

Mosul International Airport, 4.8 km

• Arbil → Al Mawşil al Jadīdah

  83 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $7–10
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• Kirkuk → Al Mawşil al Jadīdah

  151 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · $14–20
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• Baghdad → Al Mawşil al Jadīdah

  353 km · quickest by road, 5h 58m · $32–44
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