Sacred Places
62 places found
IslamGrande Mosquée de Lyon
Lyon · France · mosque
The Grande Mosquée de Lyon, inaugurated in 1994 on Boulevard Pinel, is among the largest mosques in France and the principal gathering place for Friday jumu'ah in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its Persian-arched facade, glass-pyramid entrance, and twenty-five-metre minaret mark it clearly on the Lyon skyline.
IslamGrand Mosque of Bursa
Bursa · Turkey · mosque
The Grand Mosque of Bursa, known in Turkish as Ulu Cami, is the largest mosque in the Ottomans' first capital and a landmark of early Ottoman architecture, its vast prayer hall roofed by twenty domes and centred on a rare indoor ablution fountain. Commissioned by Sultan Bayezid I and completed in 1399, it is celebrated for the 192 monumental calligraphic panels that line its walls and pillars.
IslamGyanvapi Mosque
· India · mosque
The Gyanvapi Mosque is a Sunni Muslim place of worship in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, built in the late seventeenth century beside the present Kashi Vishwanath Temple in one of India's most ancient sacred precincts.
IslamHagia Sophia Grand Mosque
Istanbul · Türkiye · mosque
Justinian's Great Church of 537, the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, became the grand mosque of Istanbul in 1453, a museum in 1935, and a working mosque again on 24 July 2020, its Byzantine mosaics still open to view in the upper gallery.
IslamHaji Ali Dargah
Mumbai · India · dargah
The mazar of Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari stands on a rocky islet in the Arabian Sea off Worli, reached only on foot over a 700 yard causeway that the tides still command, and open to pilgrims of every faith.
IslamHassan II Mosque
Casablanca · Morocco · mosque
The Hassan II Mosque rises on a promontory over the Atlantic in Casablanca, its 210-metre minaret the world's second-tallest, one of the very few mosques in Morocco open to visitors of every faith.
IslamHazrat Nizamuddin Dargah
New Delhi · India · dargah
The tomb of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Mehboob-e-Ilahi, the Beloved of God, where qawwali was born and is still sung every evening between the master's mazar and that of his disciple Amir Khusrau.
IslamJama Masjid, Agra
Agra · India · mosque
The Jama Masjid of Agra rises in red sandstone and white marble beside Agra Fort, a congregational mosque that Princess Jahanara Begum, eldest daughter of Shah Jahan, personally endowed and gave to the city's Friday prayer.
IslamJama Masjid, Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
The Jama Masjid of Ahmedabad has gathered the city's Friday congregation since Sultan Ahmad Shah I inaugurated it on 4 January 1424, its forest of two hundred and sixty carved pillars rising in yellow sandstone at the heart of the old walled city.
IslamJama Masjid, Champaner
Champaner · India · mosque
A grand Friday mosque raised in 1513 within the fortified Sultanate capital of Champaner, its twin thirty metre minarets and carved sandstone screens ranked among the finest achievements of Gujarat's Indo-Islamic architecture.
IslamJama Masjid, Delhi (Masjid-i-Jahan-Numa)
Delhi (Old Delhi) · India · mosque
The imperial congregational mosque of Mughal Delhi, built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656, whose red sandstone courtyard holds some 25,000 worshippers in salah beneath three striped marble domes and two 40-metre minarets.
IslamJama Masjid, Jaunpur
Jaunpur · India · mosque
Known locally as Badi Masjid, the great mosque, this fifteenth century Friday mosque of the Sharqi sultans rises on the Gomti's bank in Jaunpur, its towering pishtaq gateway among the largest in India and still gathering worshippers for jumu'ah prayer today.