A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture
| Name of text: | A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture |
| Author of text: | K. A. C. Creswell |
| Date of text: | 1958 |
| Date of person in text: | 20th century |
| Name of structure in text: | Mosque of al_Mutawakkil / Great Mosque |
| Type of structure in text: | mosque |
| Date of structure in text | 836, replaced in 849-52 |
| Century of structure 1: | 9 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Country in text: | Iraq |
| Region in text: | |
| City in text: | Samarra |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Mihrab, walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | |
| Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Colour descriptions in text: | dark blue |
| Bibliography: | Creswell, K. A. C., A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture (Beirut: 1958), p. 277 |
| URLs: | http://www.dur.ac.uk/derek.kennet/samarra.htm |
| Comments: | Mihrab decorated with glass mosaic, only small fragments survive. Creswell says traces of gold mosaic in the spandrels. Fragments of panels of dark blue glass lined the walls |