Sacred Places
62 places found
IslamJameh Mosque of Qazvin
Qazvin · Iran · mosque
Iran's oldest Friday mosque still gathering worshippers, the Jameh Mosque of Qazvin layers an Abbasid core, a double shelled Seljuk dome, and Safavid additions around a courtyard raised, tradition holds, on the ruins of a Zoroastrian fire Temple.
IslamLakemba Mosque
Lakemba · Australia · mosque
The Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb Mosque, widely known as Lakemba Mosque, is a Sunni mosque in suburban Sydney owned and managed by the Lebanese Muslim Association, and is Australia's largest mosque.
IslamMadrid Central Mosque
Madrid · Spain · mosque
A modern Sunni mosque in the Cuatro Caminos quarter of Madrid's Tetuan district, opened in 1988 as the first mosque to serve the city since the end of Islamic rule in 1085.
IslamMecca Masjid
Hyderabad · India · mosque
Rising in dressed grey granite beside the Charminar in Hyderabad's old city, Mecca Masjid takes its name from bricks said to be made of soil brought from the holy city of Makkah, and stands among the largest mosques in India, still gathering thousands for Friday prayer.
IslamMenüçehr Mosque
Ani · Turkey · mosque
Standing above the gorge of the Aras river on the ruined edge of Ani, the Menüçehr Mosque has stood since the Seljuk era as the first mosque the Turks raised in Anatolia, its octagonal minaret climbing over stone the colour of the surrounding steppe.
IslamMesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque
Istanbul · Turkey · mosque
A sixteenth century Ottoman Friday mosque in the Fatih district of Istanbul, raised for the grand vizier Mesih Mehmed Pasha and completed in 1585 to 1586, its lead covered dome resting on a stepped, sloping site above a vaulted row of shops.
IslamMolla Gürani Mosque
Istanbul · Turkey · mosque
A Byzantine church reborn as an Ottoman mosque in the Vefa quarter of Istanbul's Fatih district, its brick banded dome and arched windows counted among the city's most important surviving examples of Komnenian and Palaiologan architecture.
IslamMoti Masjid
Agra · India · mosque
The Pearl Mosque of Agra Fort, raised in white marble for the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan between 1647 and 1653, its domes rising serene above the fort's red sandstone ramparts.
IslamMoti Masjid, Delhi
Delhi · India · mosque
A small, luminous white marble mosque tucked within the Red Fort at Old Delhi, built as Emperor Aurangzeb's own private place of prayer and among the last great flowerings of Mughal devotional architecture.
IslamNakhoda Masjid
Kolkata · India · mosque
At the crossing of Zakaria Street and Rabindra Sarani in Kolkata's Burrabazar quarter, Nakhoda Masjid is the principal mosque of the city, a Hanafi Sunni congregation whose prayer hall holds some 10,000 worshippers beneath twin 151-foot minarets.
IslamOrtaköy Mosque
Istanbul · Turkey · mosque
An Ottoman Baroque mosque of the mid-1850s on the Bosphorus shore in Istanbul's Ortaköy quarter, its marble facade and paired minarets rising beneath the Bosphorus Bridge as one of the strait's most recognised silhouettes.
IslamPanbari Mosque
Panbari · India · mosque
The earliest surviving mosque in Assam, a three-domed Bengal Sultanate structure of the 15th or 16th century standing near Rangamati hill, some 25 kilometres east of Dhubri town.