List of mosques in the Arab League

This is a list of mosques in the Arab League.

Name Images Country City Year G Remarks
Djamaa el Kebir  Algeria Algiers 1097 U
Ketchaoua Mosque
 Algeria Algiers 1612 U
El Jedid Mosque
 Algeria Algiers 1880s U
Great Mosque of Tlemcen  Algeria Tlemcen 1082 U
Al Fateh Mosque  Bahrain Juffair 1990s U
Khamis Mosque  Bahrain Khamis ? U Believed to be the first mosque in Bahrain.
Mosque of Amr ibn al-As
 Egypt Cairo 642 A
Abu Haggag Mosque
 Egypt Luxor 11th Century A
El-Tabia Mosque
 Egypt Aswan A
Mosque of Muhammad Ali
 Egypt Cairo Citadel 1848 T Most visible site in the city.
Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan
 Egypt Cairo 1356 T
Mosque of Al-Hakim  Egypt Cairo 985 A
Al-Azhar Mosque
 Egypt Cairo 969 A National mosque
Blue Mosque
 Egypt Cairo 1347 A
Al Hussein Mosque
 Egypt Cairo 1154 T
Mosque of Ibn Tulun
 Egypt Cairo 876-879 U
Abu Haggag Mosque
 Egypt Luxor 11th Century A
El-Mursi Abul Abbas Mosque
 Egypt Alexandria ? U
Al Qa'ed Ibrahim Mosque
 Egypt Alexandria ? U
Imam Husayn Mosque
 Iraq Karbala 680 U National mosque
Al Abbas Mosque
 Iraq Karbala 680 U National mosque
Imam Ali Mosque
 Iraq Najaf ? U Shrine of Ali
Al Kadhimiya Mosque
 Iraq Kadhimayn ? U Shrine of Twelver Shi'ah 7th and 9th Imam.
Al-Askari Mosque
 Iraq Samarra ? U Mosque with golden dome and shrine of Twelver Shi'ah 10th and 11th Imam.
Great Mosque of Samarra
 Iraq Samarra 852 U
King Abdullah I Mosque
 Jordan Amman 1989 U [1]
King Hussein Mosque  Jordan Amman 2006 U Praying hall 5,500 worshipers, outdoor praying area 2,500 worshippers, inaugurated on April 11, 2006, Islamic architectural style prevalent in Bilad Sham, Umayyad-style ornamentation carved in Jordanian stone.[2]
Chinguetti Mosque
 Mauritania Chinguetti ? U
Grand Mosque  Kuwait Kuwait City 1979–1986 U
Sayyida Khawla Mosque  Lebanon Baalbek ? U
Khatem Al-Anbiyaa Mosque  Lebanon Beirut ? U
Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque
 Lebanon Beirut 2005 U
Fakhredine Mosque
 Lebanon Deir el Qamar 1493 U
Great Mosque of Tripoli
 Lebanon Tripoli ? U
Central Mosque of Nouakchott
 Mauritania Nouakchott ? U
Hassan II Mosque  Morocco Casablanca 1993 U Masjid al Malik Hassan II
Koutoubia Mosque
 Morocco Marrakech 1158 U
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque  Oman Muscat 2001 A
Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound / Haram Ash-Sharif
 Israel Jerusalem (old city) Unknown, considered the second oldest mosque,[3] U Al-Masjid al-Aqṣá,[4] the former Qiblah,[5] site of the significant event of Al-Isra' wal-Mi'raj, third holiest site in Islam. The term properly refers to the whole Temple Mount compound (seen as a single mosque).[note 1]
Mosque of Omar
 Israel Jerusalem 1193 U
Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque  State of Palestine Beit Hanina ? U
Mosque of Omar
 State of Palestine Bethlehem 1860 U The mosque was built on the spot where the Rashidun Caliph Umar prayed when he entered Bethlehem and is the oldest mosque in that city.
Sayed al-Hashim Mosque  Gaza Strip Gaza 1850 U The grandfather of Muhammad is said to be buried under the dome. Originally mosque built in the 12th century. Present day mosque built in 1850.
Great Mosque of Gaza  Gaza Strip Gaza 1344 U The Great Mosque is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the Gaza Strip and throughout its history it was Philistine temple, a Byzantine church, an Arab mosque, a Crusader cathedral and was finally transformed back to a mosque by the Mamluks.
Ibrahimi Mosque  State of Palestine Hebron ? U
Al-Khadra Mosque
 State of Palestine Nablus 1288-90 U
King Saud Mosque  Saudi Arabia Jeddah 1987 SA
Masjid al-Haram  Saudi Arabia Mecca 638, 1571 U National mosque
Al-Masjid al-Nabawi
 Saudi Arabia Medina 1817 SA
Masjid al-Quba  Saudi Arabia Medina 1986 (rebuilt) SA
Arba Rucun Mosque
 Somalia Mogadishu ? U
Fakr ad-Din Mosque
 Somalia Mogadishu 1269 U Oldest mosque in Mogadishu. Built by the Sultanate of Mogadishu's first Sultan, Fakr ad-Din.
Mosque of Islamic Solidarity
 Somalia Mogadishu 1987 U National mosque. Largest masjid in the Horn of Africa.
Hajja Soad mosque
 Sudan Khartoum ? U
Great Mosque of Aleppo
 Syria Aleppo 715 U Shrine of Zechariah, father of John the Baptist
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque
 Syria Damascus 682 U Shrine of Zaynab bint Ali
Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque
 Syria Damascus ? U Shrine of Fatimah, the youngest daughter of Husayn ibn Ali
Sulaymaniyya Takiyya
 Syria Damascus ? U
Nabi Habeel Mosque
 Syria Damascus ? U Tomb of Abel, son of Prophet Adam
Umayyad Mosque
 Syria Damascus 715 U National mosque
Sinan Pasha Mosque  Syria Damascus 1590 U
Aqsab Mosque  Syria Damascus 1234 U
Darwish Pasha Mosque  Syria Damascus 1574 U
Al-Fadael Mosque  Syria Homs 1062 U
Al-Nouri Mosque  Syria Homs 1129 U
Mosquée Ennasr
 Tunisia Aryanah ? U
Bassi Mosque
 Tunisia Djerba ? U
Mosque of Uqba
 Tunisia Kairouan 670 U also known as the Great Mosque of Kairouan
Great Mosque of Mahdia
 Tunisia Mahdia ? U
Great Mosque of Sousse
 Tunisia Sousse ? U
Great Mosque Halfaouine
 Tunisia Tunis ? U
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi City 2000 A National mosque
Grand Mosque of Dubai
 United Arab Emirates Dubai City 1998 A
Mudhaffar Mosque  Yemen Ta'izz A
Al-Hadi Mosque
 Yemen Sa'dah A
Al Khair Mosque, Sana'a  Yemen Sana'a A
Saleh Mosque  Yemen Sana'a 2008 A
Group
SA Islamist (Salafism/Wahhabism)
TJ Tablighi Jamaat
A Arab group
T Turkish group
U Unknown group (or undetermineted)

See also

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List of mosques in the United Arab Emirates

Notes

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  1. ^ According to historian Oleg Grabar, "It is only at a relatively late date that the Muslim holy space in Jerusalem came to be referred to as al-haram al-sharif (literally, the Noble Sacred Precinct or Restricted Enclosure, often translated as the Noble Sanctuary and usually simply referred to as the Haram). While the exact early history of this term is unclear, we know that it only became common in Ottoman times, when administrative order was established over all matters pertaining to the organization of the Muslim faith and the supervision of the holy places, for which the Ottomans took financial and architectural responsibility. Before the Ottomans, the space was usually called al-masjid al-aqsa (the Farthest Mosque), a term now reserved to the covered congregational space on the Haram, or masjid bayt al-maqdis (Mosque of the Holy City) or, even, like Mecca's sanctuary, al-masjid al-ḥarâm,"[6]

References

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  1. ^ "King Abdullah I Mosque". Archived from the original on 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  2. ^ King Hussein Ben Talal Mosque Archived 2012-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, The King Hussein Ben Talal Mosque
  3. ^ National Geographic Society (U.S.); de Blij, H.J.; Downs, R.; John Wiley & Sons (2007). Wiley/National Geographic College Atlas of the World. Wiley. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-471-74117-6. Retrieved 2022-06-15. Al 'Aqsa is the second oldest mosque in Islam after the Kaaba in Mecca and is third in holiness after the mosques in Mecca and Medina. It holds up to 400,000 worshippers at one time.
  4. ^ Quran 17:1-7 Quran 17:1–7
  5. ^ "The Spiritual Significance of Jerusalem: The Islamic Vision. The Islamic Quarterly. 4 (1998): pp.233–242
  6. ^ Grabar 2000, p. 203.