The following Mosques will be discussed in this thread


Masjid Nabawi , MEDINA
Masjid al-Haram-Makkah
JAMIA MASJID DELHI
Hagia Sophia, ISTAMBUL, TURKEY
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, Brunei
Sultan Mosque, Little india, Singapore
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Masjid-Malaysia
Kapitan Keling Mosquem, Malasysia
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
King Abdul Aziz Masjid, Gibraltar
Al-Bukhari Masjid , Kedah Malaysia
Hassan II Masjid - Casablanca, Morocco
The Attarine Masjid, Attraine
The Putra Masjid, Malaysia
Xian Great Mosque in Xian People's Republic of China
Al-Aqsa Mosque-Jerusalem
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Oman
The Shah Faisal Masjid in Islamabad, Pakistan
Great Masjid of Algiers
Great Masjid of Tlemcen
Al-Hakim Masjid, Cairo
Al-Azhar University, Cairo
The Al-Rifa'i Masjid
Al Hussein Masjid
El-Mursi Abul Abbas Masjid
Masjid of Amr ibn al-As, Egypt
Masjid-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan
Masjid of Ibn Tulun
Masjid of Muhammad Ali
Qala'un Masjid
Great Masjid of Djenné
Djinguereber Masjid
The Jummah Masjid
Chinguetti Masjid
Great Masjid of Taza


Masjid Nabawi

Medina also transliterated into English as Madinah; officially al Madinat al Munawwarah is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province. It is the second holiest city in Islam, and the burial place of Muhammad.

It currently has a population of more than 1,300,000 people (2006). Medina was originally known as Yathrib, but later the city's name was changed to Madinat al-Nabi ("city of the prophet") or Al Madinah al Munawwarah ("the enlightened city" or "the radiant city"), while the short form Madinah simply means "city". Medina is celebrated for containing the tomb of Muhammad, and so ranks as the second holiest city of Islam, after Mecca (Makkah). Medina is 210 miles (338 kilometres north of Mecca and about 120 mi (193 km) from the Red Sea coast. It is situated in the most fertile part of all the Hejaz territory, the streams of the vicinity tending to converge in this locality. An immense plain extends to the south; in every direction the view is bounded by hills and mountains. The city forms an oval, surrounded by a strong wall, 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 metres) high, that dates from the 12th century C.E., and is flanked with towers, while on a rock, stands a castle. Of its four gates, the Bab-al-Salam, or Egyptian gate, is remarkable for its beauty. Beyond the walls of the city, west and south are suburbs consisting of low houses, yards, gardens ,and plantations. These suburbs have also walls and gates. Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Mosque of the Prophet) stands at the east of the city and resembles the mosque at Mecca on a smaller scale. Its courtyard is almost 500 ft (152 m) in length, the dome is high with three picturesque minarets . The tomb of the prophet, who died and was buried here in 632 C.E., is enclosed with a screen of iron filigree, at the south side of which the hajji goes through his devotions, for all of which he pays, but is consoled with the assurance that one prayer here is as good as a thousand elsewhere.

The tombs of Fatimah (Muhammad's daughter) and Abu Bakr (first caliph and the father of Muhammad wife, Aisha), and of Umar (Umar ibn Khattab), the second caliph, are also here. The mosque dates back to the time of Muhammad, but has been twice burned and reconstructed.

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Masjid al-Haram-Makkah

Makkah (in full: Makkah al-Mukarramah ) is an Islamic holy city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in the historic Hejaz region. It has a population of 1,294,167 (2004 census). The city is located 73 kilometres (45 miles) inland from Jeddah, in the narrow sandy Valley of Abraham, 277 metres (909 ft)above sea level. It is located 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Red Sea.

The city is revered by Muslims for containing the holiest site of Islam, the Masjid al-Haram. A pilgrimage to Mecca during the week of the Hajj is one of the Pillars of Islam, a sacred duty that is required of all able-bodied Muslims who can afford to go, at least once in their lifetime. People of other faiths are forbidden from entering the city.

The English word Makkah (uncapitalized), meaning "a place to which many people are attracted" is derived from Makkah.

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JAMIA MASJID DELHI

The Masjid-i-Jahan Numa, commonly known as Jama Masjid of Delhi is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India. Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is one of the largest and best known mosques in India. It is also at the beginning of a very busy and popular street/center in Old Delhi, Chandni Chowk. (There are also Jama Masjids in many other cities with a history of Islamic rule, or large Muslim populations.)

Masjid-i-Jahan Numa means "the mosque commanding a view of the world", and the name Jama Masjid is a reference to the weekly congregation observed on Friday (the yaum al-jum`a) at the mosque. The courtyard of the mosque can hold up to twenty-five thousand worshippers. The mosque also houses several relics in a closet in the north gate, including a copy of the Qur'an written on deer skin. The cost incurred on the construction in those times was 10 lakh (1 million) Rupees.
Shah Jahan built several important mosques in Delhi, Agra, Ajmer and Lahore. The Jama Masjid's floorplan is very similar to the Moti Masjid at Agra, but the Jama Masjid is the bigger and more imposing of the two. Its majesty is further enhanced because of the high ground that he selected for building this mosque.

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Hagia Sophia, ISTAMBUL, TURKEY

Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom") is a former patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum, in Istanbul, Turkey. Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. It was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until the completion of the Medieval Seville Cathedral in 1520.

The current building was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, and was in fact the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site (the previous two had both been destroyed by riots). It was designed by two architects, Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. The Church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a 50-foot (15 m) silver iconostasis. It was the patriarchal church of the Patriarch of Constantinople and the religious focus point of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire for nearly 1000 years.

In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and Sultan Mehmed II ordered the building to be converted into a mosque. The bells, altar, iconostasis, and sacrificial vessels were removed, and many of the mosaics were eventually plastered over. The Islamic features - such as the mihrab, the minbar, and the four minarets outside - were added over the course of its history under the Ottomans. It remained as a mosque until 1935, when it was converted into a museum by the secular Republic of Turkey.

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Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, Brunei

Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque is a royal Islamic mosque located in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of the Sultanate of Brunei. The mosque is classified as one of the most spectacular mosques in the Asia Pacific and a major tourist attraction. Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque is considered amongst the people of Brunei as the country's major landmark

The architecture of the mosque has a heavy influence of both Islamic and Italian. Designed by an Italian architect, the mosque is constructed on an artificial lagoon near the banks of the Brunei River circulated by a water village (named Kampong Ayer). The Sultan Omar Ali Saiffuddin mosque consists of marble minarets and golden domes with courtyards and fertile gardens filled with fountains. The mosque is circulated by a plethora of trees and floral gardens which in Islam it is considered as an interpertation of heaven.

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Sultan Mosque, Little india, Singapore

The Singapore Sultan Mosque was named after the first sultan of Singapore. The Sultan Mosque is an imposing structure which was built with a grant of SGD 3,000 from the East India Company. This is the largest mosque in Singapore and the present building of the Sultan Mosque was constructed in the year 1928. Among the existing 80 mosques in Singapore, the Sultan Mosque is the actual center of the Muslim community. The excellent Mughal architecture appeals the tourists. The surprising fact about the mosque is that an Irish man called Denis Santry designed the mosque.

The dome of the Sultan Mosque in Singapore is enormous and crowned with gold. The mosque has a large prayer hall. One particularly interesting feature of the Sultan Mosque is that the base of the dome is made up of glass bottles.

In the evenings, the residents gather at the garden to enjoy the cool light winds which make them feel rejuvenated after the day's exhaustion.

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Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Masjid-Malaysia

The Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Masjid (Malay: Masjid Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz) is the state mosque of Selangor, Malaysia. It is located in Shah Alam. It is the country's biggest mosque and also the second biggest mosque in Southeast Asia after Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The Masjid was commissioned by the late Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz, when he declared Shah Alam as the new capital of Selangor on February 14, 1974. Construction began in 1982 and finished on March 11, 1988.

Its architecture is a combination of Malay and Modernist style. It is nicknamed as 'Blue Mosque' for its blue aluminium dome covered in a rosette of verses from the Koran.

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Kapitan Keling Mosquem, Malasysia

The Kapitan Keling Masjid was first erected by the troops of the British East India Company who were of Muslim religion, back in the late 1700's. Several years later, the growing Indian Muslim community required a more permanent Masjid to be built. In 1801, the community, led by their leader, Cauder Mydin Merican or also referred to as 'Kapitan Keling', was granted with an 18-acre lot. Made of brick, the original mosque was a single-storey structure, but over the years, the Masjid has seen plenty of rennovation works.

The Masjid was named after the head of the Indian Muslim community in the late 1700's and early 1800's, a prominent trader by the name of Cauder Mydin Merican, who was referred to by the British as 'Kapitan Keling'. The word Kapitan, which was probably derived from the word 'Captain', was a term that the British gave to Cauder Mydin Merican to refer to his role as the head of the Indian Muslim community back then. And contrary to popular belief, the term Keling is not a derogatory word. Keling referred to immigrants who came from South India, just as the word Benggali referred to the immigrants who came from North India.

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Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

The Dome of the Rock (Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah) is an Islamic prayer house, — which Jews and Christians call Har ha-Bayit or the Temple Mount — it remains one of the best known landmarks of Jerusalem. It was built between 687 and 691 by the 9th Caliph, Abd al-Malik. It is generally confused with Masjid Al Aqsa which was a first praying direction for Muslims, and lies in the vicinity of the Dome of the Rock.

According to Islamic tradition, the rock in the center of the dome is the spot from which Muhammad ascended for a night-long journey to Heaven in AD 621, accompanied by the angel Gabriel. There he met many prophets like Abraham and Moses and was given the Islamic prayers before returning to Earth.

In Judaism the stone is the site where Abraham fulfilled God's test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son Isaac (Muslims believe that this event involved Abraham's other son Ishmael and occurred in the desert of Mina where millions of Muslims offer pilgrimage every year). There is some controversy among secular scholars about equating Mount Moriah (where Isaac's binding occurred according to the Biblical narrative), the Temple Mount, and the rock where Jacob dreamed about angels ascending and descending on a ladder to heaven; but for Orthodox Jews, there is no doubt that all these events occurred on this spot.

According to some Jewish scholars it was this rock which was situated inside the Holy of Holies and upon which the Ark of the Covenant was placed in the First Temple. During the Second Temple, the stone was used by High Priest who offered up the incense and sprinkled the blood of the sacrifices on it during the Yom Kippur Service. Rabbinic legend also alleges that the entire world was created from this stone, hence the name Foundation Stone.

In Christianity, in addition to Jesus's actions in the temple, it is believed that during the time of the Byzantine Empire, the spot where the Dome was later constructed was where Constantine's mother built a small church, calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called the Church of the Holy Wisdom.

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King Abdul Aziz Masjid, Gibraltar

The Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque, also known as the King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al-Saud Masjid or the Mosque of the Custodian of the Two Holy Masjids is a Masjid at Europa Point, at the southern tip of Gibraltar. The building was a gift from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and took two years to build at a cost of around five million pounds. It was officially inaugurated on 8 August 1997. Around seven per cent of Gibraltar's population are Muslims; a total of approximately 2,000 people. The Masjid complex also contains a school, library, and lecture hall.

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