A silent color film sequence of the Al-Askari Mosque (also known as the Golden Mosque) in Samarra, Iraq from 1956. This sequence is from amateur filmmaker John W. Rowe's travelogue of a car rally between Geneva, Switzerland and Bombay, India. The film clip is from the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution collection of historical moving images. http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=N24O... (less info)