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- Mustansiriya Madrasa
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Mustansiriya Madrasa
Mustansiriya Madrasah is a historical building in Baghdad, Iraq. It was the premises of one of the oldest Islamic institutions of higher learning in the world, established in 1227 AD as a madrasah by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mustansir making it one of the oldest madrasahs in the world.
The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Historical Features of the Tigris River in Baghdad Rusafa, which extends from the school Al-Mustansiriya to the Abbasid Palace.
by Taisir Mahdi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 35 m
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Mustansiriya Madrasa
UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
2014
13th Century AD
Islamic
Islamic
Islamic Monuments
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