Sacred Places of Islam
Masjids, sufi dargahs, madrasas across continents.
Islamic sacred places include mosques (masjid), sufi shrines (dargah), seminaries (madrasa), and historic pilgrimage destinations across the Muslim world.
On Adisthan, places of Islam are catalogued with the same care given to every other tradition. Each page is community-maintained until claimed by a verified custodian. We welcome corrections, additions, and the steady hand of those who know these places best.
Featured places of Islam
A curated selection from the directory.
IslamAbu'l-Fida Mosque
Hama · Syria · mosque
A fourteenth-century Ayyubid mausoleum and Mamluk-era congregational mosque on the banks of the Orontes in Hama, Syria, known locally as the Mosque of the Serpents for the carved pillars at its windows.
IslamAdhai Din Ka Jhonpra
Ajmer · India · mosque
The oldest surviving monument in Ajmer and among the earliest Indo-Islamic mosques in India, its 1199 CE prayer hall and Iltutmish's 1213 CE arched screen rise on 344 pillars carved by Hindu and Jain craftsmen from earlier Temples.
IslamAdina Mosque
Pandua · India · mosque
Once the largest mosque on the Indian subcontinent, the Adina Mosque at Pandua in West Bengal was raised by Sultan Sikandar Shah between 1373 and 1375 as the congregational mosque of the Bengal Sultanate, and holds his tomb within its western wall.
IslamAjmer Sharif Dargah
Ajmer · India · dargah
The tomb of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, Gharib Nawaz, the benefactor of the poor, and the principal Sufi dargah of South Asia, where pilgrims of every community have offered chadars and shared the sweet rice of the great deghs for eight centuries.
Akbarabadi Mosque
Delhi · India · mosque
A mosque raised in 1650 by Akbarabadi Begum, a wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, in the walled city of Shahjahanabad, demolished by British forces in the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising and today marked only by disputed, unexcavated remains beneath Netaji Subhash Park in Old Delhi.
IslamAlamgir Mosque
Varanasi · India · mosque
Raised in 1669 by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on the high bank above Panchganga Ghat in Varanasi, the Alamgir Mosque stands where wide stone steps meet the Ganges, its domes and surviving corner turret rising over a site earlier accounts describe as the Hindu Temple of Bindu Madhava.
IslamAl-Kadhimiya Mosque
Baghdad · Iraq · mosque
The Twelver Shia shrine in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district holding the tombs of the 7th Imam, Musa al-Kadhim, and the 9th Imam, Muhammad al-Jawad, beneath twin gold domes.
IslamAl-Masjid al-Aqsa
Jerusalem · Israel · mosque
The Farthest Mosque of the Night Journey and the first qibla of Islam: a 14-hectare walled sanctuary in the Old City of Jerusalem holding the silver-domed Qibli Mosque and the golden Dome of the Rock, Islam's third holiest site.
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