(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Photo feature by Alaa Al-Huwaijel
BAGHDAD, April 2 (KUNA) -- Mustansiriya Madrasah (school) is a spacious old complex of ornamented structures maintaining construction features of the Abbasid caliphate.
It was established in 1227 by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustansir and was one of the oldest universities in the world.
Situated on a 4836-sq-m plot of land on the Tigris River bank, it is marked with a 1710-sq-m central plaza, corridors, teaching halls, a mosque, a library and dormitories.
Al-Mustansir had dedicated special attention to the school, contributing with some 80,000 books. (end) ahh.rk
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