Worlds Top 20 largest
Mosques
By:Khizer
20. Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem
• Al-Aqsa Mosque also known as al-Aqsa, is an Islamic holy place in
the Old City of Jerusalem. The site that includes the mosque (along
with the Dome of the Rock) is also referred to as al-Haram ashSharif or “Sacred Noble Sanctuary”, a site also known as the Temple
Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, the place where the First and
Second Temples are generally accepted to have stood. Widely
considered as the third holiest site in Islam, Muslims believe that the
prophet Muhammad was transported from the Sacred Mosque in
Mecca to al-Aqsa during the Night Journey. Islamic tradition holds
that Muhammad led prayers towards this site until the seventeenth
month after the emigration, when God ordered him to turn towards
the Ka’aba. Al-Aqsa is comes as twentieth largest mosque of the
world. A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. Muslims
often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, Masjid. The mosque
serves as a place where Muslims can come together for prayer as
well as a center for information, education and dispute settlement.
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19. Masjid e Tooba (Gol Masjid),
Karachi, Pakistan
• Masjid e Tooba or Tooba Mosque is located in Karachi, Sindh,
Pakistan. Locally, it is also known as the Gol Masjid. Masjid e Tooba
was built in 1969 in Defense Housing Society, Karachi is nineteenth
largest mosque in the world. It is located just off main Korangi Road.
Masjid e Tooba is often claimed to be the largest single dome
mosque in the world. It is also major tourist attraction in Karachi.
Masjid e Tooba is built with pure white marble. The dome of the
Masjid e Tooba is 72 meters (236 feet) in diameter, and is balanced
on a low surrounding wall with no central pillars. Masjid e Tooba has
a single minaret standing 70 meters high. The central prayer hall
has a capacity of 5,000 people. It has been built keeping acoustics
in mind. A person speaking inside one end of the dome can be
heard at the other end. This mosque was designed by Pakistani
architect Dr Babar Hamid Chauhan.
18. Al Fateh Mosque (Bahrain
Grand Mosque)
• The Al-Fateh Mosque also known as Al-Fateh
Islamic Center & Al Fateh Grand Mosque is
eighteenth of the largest mosques in the world,
capable of accommodating over 7,000
worshippers at a time. he mosque is the largest
place of worship in Bahrain. It is located next to
the King Faisal Highway in Juffair, which is a
town located in the capital city of Manama. The
mosque very close to the Royal Bahraini Palace,
the residence of the king of Bahrain Hamad ibn
Isa Al Khalifah. The huge dome built on top of
the Al-Fatih Mosque is made of pure fiberglass.
17. Sultan Ahmed Mosque,
Istanbul
• The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is a historical mosque in
Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the
Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is
popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles
adorning the walls of its interior. It was built between
1609 and 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. Like many
other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder,
a madrasah and a hospice. While still used as a
mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has also become a
popular tourist attraction. Sultan Ahmed Mosque is
known as seventeenth largest mosque in the world.
16. Grozny Central Dome
Mosque
• Akhmad Kadyrov Grozny Central Dome Mosque
is located in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya,
and bears the name of Akhmad Kadyrov. The
mosque design is based on the Blue Mosque in
I.stanbul. On October 16, 2008, the mosque was
officially opened in a ceremony in which
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov spoke and
was with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
This mosque is one of the biggest in Europe. In
this mosque ten thousand Muslims can pray at a
time and its minarets reach 60m high and is
sixteenth largest mosque in the world.
15. Baitul Futuh Mosque
• The Bait’ul Futuh Mosque is the largest mosque
in Western Europe and fifteenth largest in the
world with an area of 5.2 acres (21,000 m2), the
mosque complex can accommodate up to
10,000 worshippers. Built in 2003 at a cost of
approximately £5.5 million, entirely from
donations of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community,
it is located in the south-west London suburb of
Morden, next to Morden South railway station,
150 yards from the Morden Underground.
14. Masjid-e-Aqsa Rabwah,
Pakistan
• Masjid-e-Aqsa is the greatest mosque of the Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community. The foundation stone was laid in
1966 and the building’s inauguration took place on
March 31, 1972. The mosque is the main mosque of the
Ahmadiyya in Rabwah for 12,000 worshipers. The
design came from the mosque, Abdul Rashid, at the
request of Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad
should occur in one Central Mosque Rabwah. The
blueprint was already established during his tenure, but
because of the Caliph was not affected, the foundation
will be laid. On 28 October 1966 Mirza Nasir Ahmad laid
the foundation for the Masjid-e-Aqsa. The Friday Sermon
the third Caliph 31 The mosque was opened in March
1972. Masjid-e-Aqsa is fourteenth largest mosque in the
world.
13. Masjid Negara, Malaysia
• The Masjid Negara is the national mosque of Malaysia, located in
Kuala Lumpur. It has a capacity of 15,000 people and is situated
among 13 acres (53,000 m2) of beautiful gardens. The original
structure was designed by a three-person team from the Public
Works Department – UK architect Howard Ashley, and Malaysians
Hisham Albakri and Baharuddin Kassim. Originally built in 1965, it is
a bold and modern approach in reinforced concrete, symbolic of the
aspirations of a then newly-independent Malaysia. Its key features
are a 73-metre-high minaret and an 18-pointed star concrete main
roof. The umbrella, synonymous with the tropics, is featured
conspicuously – the main roof is reminiscent of an open umbrella,
the minaret’s cap a folded one. The folded plates of the concrete
main roof is a creative solution to achieving the larger spans
required in the main gathering hall. Reflecting pools and fountains
spread throughout the compound. Masjid Negara known as
thirteenth largest mosque in the world.
12. Id Kah Mosque, China
• The Id Kah Mosque is a mosque located in
Kashgar, Xinjiang, in the western People’s
Republic of China. It is the largest mosque in
China and twelfth largest mosque in the world .
Every Friday, it houses nearly 10,000
worshippers and may accommodate up to
20,000. The mosque was built by Saqsiz Mirza
in ca. 1442 (although it incorporated older
structures dating back to 996) and covers
16,800 square meters.
11. Sultan Qaboos Grand
Mosque, Oman
• In 1992 Sultan Qaboos directed that his country of Oman
should have a Grand Mosque. A competition for its
design took place in 1993 and after a site was chosen at
Bausher construction commenced in 1995. Building
work, which was undertaken by Carillion Alawi LLC took
six years and four months. The Mosque is built from
300,000 tonnes of Indian sandstone and eleventh largest
mosque in the world. The main musalla (prayer hall) is
square (external dimensions 74.4 x 74.4 metres) with a
central dome rising to a height of fifty metres above the
floor. The dome and the main minaret (90 metres) and
four flanking minarets (45.5 metres) are the mosque’s
chief visual features.
10. Baitul Mukarram, Bangladesh
• Baitul Mukarram is the national mosque of
Bangladesh. Located at the heart of Dhaka,
capital of Bangladesh, the mosque was founded
during the 1960s. The mosque has a capacity of
30,000, giving it the respectable position of
being the 10th biggest mosque in the world.
However the mosque is constantly getting
overcrowded. This especially occurs during the
Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which has
resulted in the Bangladeshi government having
to add extensions to the mosque, thus
increasing the capacity to at least 40,000.
9. Jama Masjid, Delhi, India
• Jama Masjid, commonly known as the Jama Masjid of
Delhi, is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India.
Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan,
builder of the Taj Mahal, and completed in the year 1656
AD, it is the largest and best-known mosque in India and
ninth largest mosque in the world. It lies at the origin of a
very busy central street of Old Delhi, Chandni Chowk.
The later name, Jama Masjid, is a reference to the
weekly Friday noon congregation prayers of Muslims,
Jummah, which are usually done at a mosque, the
“congregational mosque”. The courtyard of the mosque
can hold up to twenty-five thousand worshipers.
8. Sheikh Zayed Mosque
• Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi is the
largest mosque in the United Arab
Emirates and the eighth largest mosque in
the world. It is named after Sheikh Zayed
bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder and the
first President of the United Arab Emirates,
who is also buried there. The mosque was
officially opened in the Islamic month of
Ramadan in 2007.
7. Badshahi Mosque, Lahore,
Pakistan
• The Badshahi Mosque or the ‘Emperor’s Mosque’ in
Lahore is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and
South Asia and the seventh largest mosque in the world.
Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the
Mughal era, it is Lahore’s most famous landmark and a
major tourist attraction. Capable of accommodating
10,000 worshippers in its main prayer hall and a further
100,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the
largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period
of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion
of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the
second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and
the fifth largest mosque in the world.
6. Faisal Mosque, Islamabad,
Pakistan
• The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque
in Pakistan and South Asia and the sixth largest mosque
in the world. It was the largest mosque in the world from
1986 to 1993 when overtaken in size by the completion
of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco.
Subsequent expansions of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand
Mosque) of Mecca and the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi
(Prophet’s Mosque) in Medina, Saudi Arabia during the
1990s relegated Faisal Mosque to fourth place in terms
of size. Faisal Mosque is conceived as the National
Mosque of Pakistan. It has a covered area of 5,000 m2
(54,000 sq ft) and has a capacity to accommodate
approximately 300,000 worshippers (100,000 in its main
prayer hall, courtyard and porticoes and another 200,000
in its adjoining grounds).
5. The Hassan II Mosque
• Located in Casablanca is the largest mosque in
Morocco and the fifth largest mosque in the
world. Designed by the French architect Michel
Pinseau and built by Bouygues.[1] It stands on a
promontory looking out to the Atlantic, which can
be seen through a gigantic glass floor with room
for 25,000 worshippers. A further 80,000 can be
accommodated in the mosque’s adjoining
grounds for a total of 105,000 worshippers
present at any given time at the Hassan II
mosque. Its minaret is the world’s tallest at 210
m (689 ft).
4. Istiqlal Mosque
• Istiqlal Mosque, or Masjid Istiqlal, in Jakarta,
Indonesia is the largest mosque in Southeast
Asia in term of capacity to accommodate people.
However in term of building structure and land
coverage, Istiqlal is the largest in Southeast Asia
and fourth largest in the world. This national
mosque of Indonesia was build to commemorate
Indonesian independence, as nation’s gratitude
for God’s blessings; the independence of
Indonesia. Therefore the national mosque of
Indonesia was named “Istiqlal”, an Arabic word
for “Independence”.
3. Imam Reza Shrine
• Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iran is a
complex which contains the mausoleum of Imam Ridha, the eighth Imam of Twelver Shi’ites
and known as third largest mosque of the world.
Also contained within the complex include: the
Goharshad Mosque, a museum, a library, four
seminaries, a cemetery, the Razavi University of
Islamic Sciences, a dining hall for pilgrims, vast
prayer halls, and other buildings.
2. Al-Masjid al-Nabawi
Al-Masjid al-Nabawi “Mosque of the
Prophet”), often called the Prophet’s
Mosque, is a mosque situated in the city of
Medina. As the final resting place of the
Islamic Prophet Muhammad, it is
considered the second holiest site in Islam
by both Shia and Sunni Muslims (the first
being the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca) and
is the second largest mosque in the world.
1. Masjid al-Haram, Mecca, Saudi
Arabia
• Masjid al-Haram is the largest mosque in the
world. Located in the city of Mecca, it surrounds
the Kaaba, the place which Muslims worldwide
turn towards while offering daily prayers and is
Islam’s holiest place. The mosque is also known
as the Grand Mosque. The current structure
covers an area of 4,008,020 square metres
(990.40 acres) including the outdoor and indoor
praying spaces and can accommodate up to
four million Muslim worshippers during the Hajj
period, one of the largest annual gatherings of
people in the world.