Sacred Places
29 places found
IslamGyanvapi Mosque
, India
The Gyanvapi Mosque is a Sunni Muslim place of worship in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, built in the late seventeenth century beside the present Kashi Vishwanath temple in one of India's most ancient sacred precincts.
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IslamHagia Sophia
, Turkey
Hagia Sophia, the Grand Mosque of the Holy Wisdom in Istanbul, was the Byzantine cathedral of Constantinople for nearly a thousand years before its conversion to a mosque in 1453 and its present role as a working Friday mosque of the Turkish republic.
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IslamHassan II Mosque
, Morocco
The Hassan II Mosque rises above the Atlantic in Casablanca, Morocco, the second-largest mosque in Africa and home to the world's second-tallest minaret, completed in 1993 through the labour of thousands of Moroccan craftsmen.
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IslamJama Masjid, Delhi
, India
The Masjid-i-Jehan-Numa, known to the wider world as the Jama Masjid of Old Delhi, is one of India's largest mosques and the historic Friday mosque of the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad.
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IslamJameh Mosque of Qazvin
, Iran
The Jameh Mosque of Qazvin, known in Persian as Masjid-e-Jameh Atiq Qazvin, is a historic Shia Friday mosque in Qazvin, Iran, and among the oldest mosques in the country.
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IslamLakemba Mosque
, Australia
The Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb Mosque in suburban Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a Sunni masjid managed by the Lebanese Muslim Association and the largest mosque in the country.
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IslamMadrid Central Mosque
, Spain
A modern Sunni mosque in the Cuatro Caminos quarter of Madrid's Tetuan district in Spain, opened in 1988 as the first mosque in the city since the end of Islamic rule in 1085.
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IslamMenüçehr Mosque
, Turkey
An eleventh-century mosque set within the ruins of the medieval Armenian-Islamic city of Ani in Kars Province, Turkey, raised under the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty.
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IslamMesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque
, Turkey
A sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey, completed in 1585-86 by Mimar Sinan for the grand vizier Mesih Mehmed Pasha.
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IslamMolla Gürani Mosque
, Turkey
A former Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey, converted by the Ottomans into a mosque and preserved as one of the city's important monuments of Byzantine architecture.
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IslamOrtaköy Mosque
, Turkey
An ornate nineteenth-century Ottoman mosque on the Bosphorus shore in Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey, formally the Buyuk Mecidiye Camii and commissioned by Sultan Abdulmecid I.
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IslamSelimiye Mosque
, Turkey
A name shared by several Ottoman-era mosques across Turkey and beyond, most famously the great sixteenth-century sanctuary of Edirne designed by the architect Mimar Sinan.
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