Built in the 19th century as Baghdad’s Ottoman seat of government, it is crowned by the famous Qishla clock tower.
Faisal I was crowned King of Iraq in its courtyard in 1921; today it is a cultural space popular with Baghdadis.
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The Qishla
القشلة وساعتها
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