Sacred Places
62 places found
IslamBasharat Mosque
Pedro Abad · Spain · mosque
The principal mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Spain, raised at Pedro Abad in the province of Cordoba and inaugurated in 1982, widely described as the first mosque built from the ground up in Spain in the modern era.
IslamBayezid I Mosque
Bursa · Turkey · mosque
The congregational mosque at the heart of the Yildirim Kulliye in Bursa, raised between 1390 and 1395 for the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, called Yildirim, the Thunderbolt, and now part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Bursa and Cumalikizik.
IslamBerlin Mosque
Berlin · Germany · mosque
The oldest surviving mosque in Germany, the Wilmersdorf Mosque was raised in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district between 1924 and 1928 in a Neo-Mughal style recalling the Taj Mahal, and remains owned and administered today by the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.
IslamBlue Mosque
Mazar-i-Sharif · Afghanistan · mosque
A turquoise-tiled shrine at the heart of Mazar-i-Sharif, venerated by many Afghans as the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib, a claim the wider Muslim world answers differently by placing his grave at Najaf.
Multi-faithCave of the Patriarchs (Ibrahimi Mosque)
Hebron · Palestine · shrine
A Herodian stone enclosure in Hebron's Old City holding the traditional graves of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah, revered as Me'arat HaMachpela by Jews and as the Ibrahimi Mosque by Muslims, and divided since 1994 into a synagogue and a mosque under one roof.
IslamCentral Mosque (Almaty)
Almaty · Kazakhstan · mosque
Rising above Almaty with a gold-crowned dome and a slender minaret, the Central Mosque is among the largest places of Muslim worship in Kazakhstan, built in 1999 on a site where a mosque has stood since 1890.
IslamCharminar
Hyderabad · India · mosque
Rising on the eastern bank of the Musi River in Hyderabad's old city, the Charminar is a 1591 monument of four soaring minarets whose upper floor has held a working mosque for more than four centuries. Built by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah to mark the founding of his new capital, it stands today as both a civic emblem of Telangana and a living place of Friday prayer.
IslamCheraman Juma Masjid
Kodungallur · India · mosque
A mosque of deep antiquity at Methala in Kodungallur, Kerala, revered by tradition as the first mosque raised on Indian soil, and today a living place of Friday congregation newly restored to its original Kerala-style form under the Muziris Heritage Project.
IslamDome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra)
Jerusalem · Israel · shrine
The golden-domed shrine at the centre of the Al-Aqsa compound, raised over the Foundation Stone in 691 to 692 CE. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, sacred in Islam as the place of the Prophet's Mi'raj ascent, and standing upon ground Jewish tradition holds as the site of the Holy of Holies.
IslamDongsi Mosque
Beijing · People's Republic of China · mosque
A historic mosque in Beijing's Dongcheng District serving the city's Hui Muslim community, its Ming dynasty prayer hall still standing as the headquarters of the Islamic Association of Beijing.
IslamFakhr al-Din Mosque
Mogadishu · Somalia · mosque
A thirteenth-century mosque in the Hamar Weyne quarter of Mogadishu, among the oldest surviving Islamic buildings on the East African coast, raised in 1269 under Sultan Fakhr ad-Din.
IslamFatehpuri Masjid
Delhi · India · mosque
A seventeenth-century Sunni mosque at the western end of Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi, built in 1650 by Fatehpuri Begum, a wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, and second in size in the city only to the Jama Masjid.