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This is a list of mosques that accommodate at least 5000 worshipers. The default listing is alphabetical- to sort using other criteria, click on the desired column header. Note that determing exactly what should be included when calculating area is a highly subjective assessment, and the figures given here adhere to no common standard.

List of large mosques

Name Images Capacity
(worshippers)
Area City Administrative Region Country Year of first building
Al-Aqsa Mosque map
5,000 [1] al quds Baraa wall District H State of Palestine Palestine 2nd built on earth after kaaba with 40 years [2]
Al Fateh Mosque map
File:Bahrain Grand Mosque.jpg
7,000 Manama Capital Governorate Bahrain Bahrain 1987
Al-Masjid al-Nabawi map
File:Masjid Nabawi. Medina, Saudi Arabia.jpg
650,000 400,500 m² (4,311,000 sq ft) Medina Al Madinah Province Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 622
Badshahi Mosque map
110,000 E 29,867.2 m² (321,488 sq ft) E Lahore Punjab Pakistan Pakistan 1673
Baitul Mukarram map
40,000 Dhaka Dhaka Division Bangladesh Bangladesh 1960
Baitul Futuh
10,000 21,000 m² (226049.52 sq ft) London Greater London England England 2003
Faisal Mosque map
74,000 [3] D 43,295.8 m² (466,032 sq ft) D Islamabad Islamabad Capital Territory Pakistan Pakistan 1986
Grozny Central Dome Mosque
10,000 [4] Grozny Republic of Chechnya Russia Russia 2008
Hassan II Mosque map
File:Morocco Africa Flickr Rosino December 2005 82664690.jpg
105,000 [5] C 90,000 m² (970,000 sq ft) C Casablanca Greater Casablanca Morocco Morocco 1993
Id Kah Mosque map
20,000 [6] Kashgar Xinjiang China People's Republic of China 1442
Imam Reza Shrine map
100,000+ [7] A 598,657 m² [8] A (6,443,943.95 sq ft) Mashhad Razavi Khorasan Province Iran Iran 818
Istiqlal Mosque map 120,000 B 95,000 m² (1,022,571.49 sq ft) Jakarta Jakarta Province Indonesia Indonesia 1978
Jama Masjid map
85,000 G Old Delhi National Capital Territory of Delhi India India 1656
Masjid al-Haram map 820,000 [9] 400,800 m² (4,314,211.2 sq ft) [9] Mecca Makkah Province Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 638
Masjid-e-Aqsa
12,000 Rabwah Punjab Pakistan Pakistan 1972
Masjid e Tooba
5,000 Karachi Sindh Pakistan Pakistan 1969
Masjid Negara map
15,000 Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Malaysia Malaysia 1965
Mosque of Rome
12,000 30,000 m² (322927.88 sq ft) Roma Lazio Italy Italy 1995
Sheikh Zayed Mosque map 40,000 F 22,000 m² (240,000 sq ft) [10] Abu Dhabi Emirate of Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 2007
Sultan Ahmed Mosque map
10,000 [11] Istanbul Istanbul Province Turkey Turkey 1616
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque map 20,000 416,000 m² (4,477,824 sq ft) Muscat Muscat Governorate Oman Oman 2001

Footnotes

  • ^A Capacity of one courtyard: 100,000; Total number courtyards: 7; Total shrine area: 267,079 m2 (2,874,810 sq ft); Total courtyard area: 331,578 m2 (3,569,080 sq ft) (world's largest)
  • ^B Capacity, main building: 61,000; secondary building: 8,000; bridge building: ~1,000; Terrace: 50,000;
  • ^C Capacity, inside: 25,000; outside: 80,000. Covered Area: 20,000 m2 (220,000 sq ft)
  • ^D Capacity, hall: 10,000; porticoes: 24,000; courtyard; 40,000. Covered Area: 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft)
  • ^E Capacity, hall: 10,000; courtyard and porticoes: 100,000. Courtyard area: 25,409.4 m2 (273,505 sq ft)
  • ^F Capacity, main prayer hall: 9,000; 2 halls for women: 2 * 1,500; porticoes: 18,000.
  • ^G Capacity, hall: 10,000; courtyard: 75,000.

Mapping

See also

  • List of largest cities in the OIC
  • Holiest sites in Islam
  • National mosque
  • List of mosques in Africa
  • List of mosques in the Americas
  • List of mosques in Asia
  • List of mosques in Europe
  • List of mosques in Oceania
  • References

    1. ^ Al Aqsa Mosque
    2. ^ History of Al Aqsa Mosque [ unreliable source?]
    3. ^ Faisal Mosque at ArchNet
    4. ^ Reuters
    5. ^ Sacred Buildings : Modern Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco
    6. ^ Peter Neville-Hadley. Frommer's China. Frommer's, 2003. ISBN  978-0764567551. Page 302.
    7. ^ "Sahn(Courtyards) Around the Holy Shrine". Imam Reza (A.S.) Network. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
    8. ^ "The Glory of the Islamic World". Imam Reza (A.S.) Network. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
    9. ^ a b Great Mosque of al-Haram at ArchNet
    10. ^ Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque - Abu Dhabi
    11. ^ Sultanahmet Mosque at ArchNet
    12. ^ NS Country Classification

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