Al-Shaheed Monument, War memorial in Baghdad, Iraq

Al-Shaheed Monument is a war memorial in Baghdad featuring a 40-meter split turquoise dome rising above a circular platform surrounded by an artificial lake. The complex extends underground with two levels that house a museum, library, lecture hall, gallery spaces, and a cafeteria.

The monument opened in 1983 during the Iran-Iraq War as part of a broader construction initiative in Baghdad during that period. Its creation reflected the city's need to commemorate the conflict through a major architectural project.

Iraqis call it نصب الشهيد, the Martyr's Memorial, and it now commemorates all Iraqi martyrs rather than only soldiers of the Iran–Iraq War. Its image was printed on the reverse of the 1986 Iraqi 25 dinar note, and a badge bearing its outline is worn on Iraqi Martyr's Day.

Daytime visits work best, when natural light reveals the dome architecture and artificial lakeside setting. Visitors should allow adequate time to explore both the above-ground and underground sections of the complex.

The monument cost about half a million US dollars and took 600 days to build; the Iraqi treasury paid a quarter of a billion dollars, and the contractor was Mitsubishi. Art in America magazine rated it the most beautiful design in the Middle East, and its image appeared on the reverse of the 1986 Iraqi 25 dinar note.