Sacred Places
62 places found
IslamQolsharif Mosque
Kazan · Russia · mosque
Rising within the walls of the Kazan Kremlin, the Qolsharif Mosque honours Qol Sharif, the sixteenth-century imam and scholar who died defending the city, and its four soaring minarets and turquoise dome make it one of the largest mosques in Russia and in Europe outside Istanbul.
IslamSelimiye Mosque, Edirne
Edirne · Türkiye · mosque
Mimar Sinan's crowning masterwork, a mosque of 1568-1575 whose single 31 m dome and four 70.89 m minarets rise over old Ottoman Edirne; a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
IslamShahi Sunehri Masjid
Delhi · India · mosque
An early eighteenth-century Mughal-era mosque on Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi, its three gilded domes raised in 1721 by the noble Roshan-ud-Daula and still gathering the faithful for daily prayer above the street's ceaseless trade.
IslamSheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates · mosque
The great mosque of the United Arab Emirates, raised by founding father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to mirror the moderation of Islam, and deliberately open to guests of every faith. Its 82 white marble domes shelter the world's largest hand-knotted carpet.
IslamSidi Bashir Mosque
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
The surviving gateway and twin minarets of a fifteenth-century Sufi mosque in Ahmedabad, known across Gujarat as Jhulta Minar, the Shaking Minarets, for a swaying resonance between the two towers that has never been fully explained.
IslamSidi Saiyyed Mosque
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
A Sunni mosque raised in Ahmedabad in the final year of the Gujarat Sultanate, 980 AH (1572 to 1573 CE), cherished above all for its ten carved stone jali screens, the finest lattice work to survive from medieval Gujarat.
IslamSpanish Mosque
Hyderabad · India · mosque
A Moorish Revival mosque within the historic Paigah Palace in Hyderabad's Begumpet quarter, its tapering spires modelled on the Cathedral-Mosque of Cordoba make it unlike any other mosque on the subcontinent.
IslamSuleymaniye Mosque
Istanbul · Türkiye · mosque
The imperial mosque Mimar Sinan raised for Suleiman the Magnificent between 1550 and 1557, crowning Istanbul's Third Hill above the Golden Horn, still an active mosque at the heart of its charitable kulliye.
IslamSultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque)
Istanbul · Türkiye · mosque
The imperial mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, raised between 1609 and 1617 facing Hagia Sophia, its six minarets and 21,043 blue Iznik tiles giving it its second name, the Blue Mosque, and a working congregational mosque to this day.
IslamTaj-ul-Masajid
Bhopal · India · mosque
Rising on a pink sandstone plinth in the old city of Bhopal, Taj-ul-Masajid, the Crown of Mosques, is the largest mosque in India, its twin eighteen-storey minarets and three white marble domes raised at the initiative of the Begums of Bhopal.
IslamTemple Mount
· Palestine · mosque
The ancient hill at the heart of Jerusalem's Old City, holiest place in Judaism and home to the Islamic al-Aqsa compound including the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
IslamTipu Sultan Mosque
Kolkata · India · mosque
A nineteenth-century mosque in central Kolkata built by Prince Ghulam Mohammed, youngest son of Tipu Sultan of Mysore, to keep his father's memory alive in the city where colonial authorities had exiled his family.