List of mosques in the Arab League

This is a list of mosques in the Arab League.

Name	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)

Notes

^ 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

^ "King Abdullah I Mosque". Archived from the original on 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
^ King Hussein Ben Talal Mosque Archived 2012-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, The King Hussein Ben Talal Mosque
^ 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.
^ Quran 17:1-7 Quran 17:1–7
^ "The Spiritual Significance of Jerusalem: The Islamic Vision. The Islamic Quarterly. 4 (1998): pp.233–242
^ Grabar 2000, p. 203.

[7] 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]

[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

[NG-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.

[Cite_quran|17|1|e=7|s=ns-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.

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List of mosques in the Arab League

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