[1] The cinema is considered an important architectural landmark of al-Rashid Street and a Baghdadi heritage sight.

[2] By the early 20th century, cinemas started to materialize in Baghdad and became a part of Iraqi life.

[3] One of them, al-Zawra'a Cinema, was built in 1937 inspired by German architecture and opened in the early 1930s and was famous for showcasing Flash Gordon serials in theatres.

[6] The architecture of the building was designed in order to look like the embodiment of cinematic fiction and the imaginary worlds of the movies that were shown in the cinema.

The presence of the decorations of the strange-shaped façade on the exterior of the cinema is intended to hint at an imagined cinematic reality.