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A mosque that was build side-by-side with al-Mansur's palace when the "Roud City" was founded. The mosque stood on the south-eastern side of the palace (Le Strange 34).Although mosques are supposed to face Mecca, this one did not. This was because of shortsightedness in its planning. The plans for this mosque were drawn up after the palace was completed. Le Strange discussed this blemish, as he wrote "the quadrangle of the mosque, for the sake of symmetry, had to conform to the already existing lines of the palace walls. Hence the Kiblah point was askew, the true direction of Mecca (it is said) bearing rather more towards the Basrah Gate than the compass point marked by the Nich (Mihbrab) in the end wall of the mosque would indicate (33-34).Although no trace of the mosque remains today, the mosque survived the mongol ransacking of Baghdad in 656/1258, as Le Strange points out that it is unmentioned in a list of mosques and shrines burned (37). The last mention of the mosque, however, is Ibn Batutah's mentioning of the mosque as still standing in 727/1327 (37).See Also: Palace of the Godlen Gate, and The "Round City"Sources:Duri, A. A. "Baghdad." Encyclopaedia of Islam. New ed. 1967.Le Strange, G. Baghdad During the Abbasid Caliphate. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.