mosques

Hassan II Mosque

  • Located in Casablanca, Morocco. It is one of Africa’s largest mosques.
  • It has an enchanting architecture inspired by the Moroccan architecture.
  • It also has a large glass hall that overlook the Atlantic Ocean.
  • It accommodates around 105,000 worshipers in its prayer hall and outdoor yard.

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

  • Located in Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital.
  • Known for its amazing architecture that combines different Islamic designs in one building. It has a large number of domes, up to 82 domes and 1,000 pillars. 24 K gold chandeliers decorate the mosque, and the world’s largest handmade carpet covers its floor. One of the world’s largest chandeliers hangs from the wall of its main prayer hall.
  • The mosque can take up to 40,000 worshipers.

Istiqlal Mosque

  • Located in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. It is one of the largest mosques in East Asia.
  • It’s a key landmark in Jakarta, known for the Islamic decorations on its roof. The name of Allah and Prophet Muhammad are written in large font on the Mihrab (prayer’s chamber).
  • It accommodates around 120,000 worshipers.

The Crystal Mosque (Masjid Kristal)

  • Located in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. It is the second largest mosque in East Asia.
  • Its all built from pure crystal, reflecting sun rays in the morning and shine in lights at night. It is one of the main touristic attractions in the city.
  • It accommodates up to 15,000 worshipers.

King Faisal Mosque

  • Located in Islamabad, Pakistan in a picturesque area where you can look over a unique view, few miles away.
  • It has a unique design as an amazing architectural masterpiece. That looks like a Bedouin tent made of white marble and decorated with mosaic.
  • It takes up to 100,000 worshipers at its main praying hall, and yards.

Badshahi Mosque

  • Located in Lahore, Pakistan, this mosque represents the beauty of architecture in the Mughal empire. Visitors are amased by its sophisticated building techniques.
  • The mosque is also known for its dark orange colour and thick walls as well as a complicated sound system. This system includes a group of gaps, built in a certain way to enable the furthest reach of the Imam’s voice inside the huge building.
  • It can take up to 100,000 worshipers.

Masjid Al Jam’ea

  • Located in the heart of New Delhi, India’s capital. During its construction, it was in the middle of the royal town of Jahanabad. The mosque is a great representation of India’s Islamic architecture of mosques.
  • The mosque combines the style of Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi in Medina, and the Seljuk’s mosques that have Iwans instead of domes. It also includes some architects of Buddhist temples.
  • The mosque can take up to 25,000 worshipers.

Sultanahmet Mosque

  • Located in Istanbul, Turkey, and famous for its internal decorations of blue marbles and blue Iznik tiles. It is also known as “The Blue Mosque.” It has an enchanting view of Marmara Sea.
  • This mosque is one of the largest and most prominent mosques in the world. Its architecture combines Byzantine and Ottoman art. The mosque has a huge and high yard and as well as 200 coloured glass windows. Sun rays reflect on those windows, which adds an aesthetic touch. The mosque also has large 6 minarets.
  • Sultanahmet mosque can take up to 10,000 worshipers.

Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

  • Located in Busher, Oman. This mosque is a model for the harmony between different architectures’ arts, as it combines between different civilisations. These include the Andalusia, North Africa, Arabian Peninsula, and local Omani architecture. It also has different decorations on its walls and internal yards that combine Omani, Ottoman, Mamluk, Moroccan, Egyptian, Pharaonic, Byzantine and Al Hijaz, in addition to decorations from Mongolian art, Central Asia, and contemporary Islamic art.
  • The mosque’s architecture is based on 5 minarets that represent the 5 pillars of Islam. Its white, big walls with arches and niches in its centre, which works as an air path, simulating the mainstream ventilation towers in the local architecture.
  • It takes up to 20,000 worshipers in its main praying hall and yards in addition to its outdoor yard.

Çamlıca Mosque

  • The largest and latest mosques of Istanbul Turkey. It was built to simulate the architecture of Sultanahmet mosque, where four high minarets surround it, looking over the Bosporus from the highest hill in the city.
  • The mosque’s architecture is inspired by the Ottomans. It has multiple domes, and the name of Allah engraved with painted steel, while the names of Allah and Surat Al Fatiha are written around it using nano technology. This is located at the main dome of the mosque, with a radius of 72 meters.
  • It takes more than 60,000 worshipers.

Mosque of Amr ibn Al’Aas

  • Located in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. It is the country’s and Africa’s first mosque. It has different names, such as “Masjid Al Fatih” and Al Masjid “Al Ateeq” and “Taj Al Jawamea.”
  • The mosque has expanded over the years. It used to be 50 cubits, when it was first built, but its expansion has reached 24,000 cubits now. It is a spacious mosque, decorated with white marble and inspired by the Islamic architecture in the Umayyad era. It consists of an open courtyard surrounded by four arcades, including the Qibla corridor, which is the most profound.
  • The mosque takes up to 50,000 worshipers. This number doubles in the last 10 days of Ramadan every year.

Al Jami Al Umawi (The Umayyad Mosque)

  • Located in Damascus, Syria. It’s one of the oldest Islamic architectural masterpieces from the Umayyad era.
  • The mosque’s architecture is unique that is like no other. Its design has inspired the design of most of the major mosques in the Islamic world.
  • The Umayyad mosque has the first minaret in Islam, which is “Al Aroos” minaret. It currently has 3 more minarets and 4 doors with a big dome, called “Al Nisr dome”. The mosque has 3 more domes decorating it and 4 Mihrabs. Its walls are decorated with exquisite patterns, that are masterpieces of creativity, marble and mosaic. Its windows are made of white marble with engraved patterns and geometrical shapes. These windows are one of the mosque’s most authentic parts, after its many renovation processes.
  • The mosque takes thousands of worshipers in its main praying hall and outdoor yard.