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List of mosques
A partial list of famous mosques:
- Al-Aqsa, in Jerusalem
- Al-Azhar, the great mosque of Cairo, Egypt, whose university is the foremost school of Sunni Islam
- Al-Hakim Mosque, one of the largest Fatimid mosques in Cairo, Egypt
- Al-Rahma Mosque in Liverpool, England
- Ar-Rifaye Mosque, in Cairo, Egypt
- Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, now destroyed, and a site of recent violence between Muslims and Hindus
- Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan
- Baitul Mukarram in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Bajrakli mosque in Belgrade, Serbia, burnt in 2004, after ethnic violence during the Unrest in Kosovo
- Bayazid Bastami in Iran
- Dome of the Rock, or Masjid Al Sakhrah, in Jerusalem (not actually a Mosque but a shrine)
- Et'hem Bey Mosque in Tirana, Albania
- Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan
- Ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, destroyed in 1993
- Finsbury Park Mosque in London, UK
- Gazi Husrev-Beg Mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Great Mosque of Djenné in Djenné, Mali
- Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey (was a mosque from 1453 until 1934 and is now a museum)
- Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco
- Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, People's Republic of China
- Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, the holiest Shi'ite mosque
- Isabey Mosque in near Izmir, Turkey
- Islamic Center of Washington in Washington, D.C., United States
- Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, the largest mosque in Southeast Asia.
- Kowloon Masjid and Islamic Centre in Hong Kong
- London Central Mosque in London, England
- Masjid al Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the "Great Mosque", holiest in Islam
- Masjid al Nabawi in Medina, Saudi Arabia
- Masjid Hajjah Fatimah in Singapore
- Masjid Sultan in Singapore
- The Mezquita in Córdoba, Spain (now a Catholic cathedral)
- Niujie Mosque in Beijing, China
- Masjid al-Quba, just outside Medina, Saudi Arabia, whose foundation stone was laid by the Prophet Muhammad himself.
- Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan , in Cairo, Egypt
- Mosque of Ibn Tulun , in Cairo, Egypt
- Mosque of Muhammad Ali at the Citadel, Cairo, Egypt
- Ribat-i Sharaf in Iran
- Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey
- Suleiman Mosque (Süleymaniye Mosque) in Istanbul, Turkey
- Sultan Ahmed Mosque ("the Blue Mosque") in Istanbul, Turkey
- Tsar's Mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Victoria Park Mosque in Manchester, England
- Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan
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