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مرقد زمرد خاتون
Popularly called the tomb of “Sitt Zubayda”, it is in fact the tomb of Zumurrud Khatun, mother of Caliph al-Nasir, built around 1202.
Its conical dome of brick muqarnas is among the finest surviving Abbasid architecture in Baghdad, beside the cemetery of Sheikh Ma’ruf al-Karkhi.
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