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The mosque was built on a large area of land that was acquired from Beit Zuhra, a well-known local family; when Zuhra refused to sell the land at a low price, his eldest son was abducted for ransom and released three months later, after Zuhra agreed to sell the land for the mosque at a low price. [10] Nearby is an amusement park named FunCity. [18]
The Great Mosque of Salé (Arabic: الجامع الأعظم, romanized: al-Jama' al-A'dam), also known as the Masjid al-Tal'a, [1] [2] is a historic mosque in Salé, Morocco.
Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, Aceh; Baitul Makmur Meulaboh Grand Mosque, Aceh; Grand Mosque of Medan, North Sumatra; An-Nur Great Mosque Pekanbaru, Riau; Ganting Grand Mosque, West Sumatra
The Jalil Khayat Mosque (Kurdish: مزگەوتی جەلیل خەیات, romanized: Mzgawti Jalil Kayat) is a Sunni Islamic mosque in Erbil, Kurdistan Region; the largest in the city.
Lists of mosques cover mosques, places of worship for Muslims. The lists include the most famous, largest and oldest mosques, and mosques mentioned in the Quran , as well as lists of mosques in each region and country of the world.
This article lists mosques from around the world by available capacity, that belong to any Islamic school or branch, that can accommodate at least 15,000 worshippers in all available places of prayer such as prayer halls , courtyards and porticoes .
Opened in 2004, it incorporates elements of Andalusian Moorish architecture and is one of the largest mosques in Riyadh besides being considered among the largest mosques in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world. It is named after the Saudi businessman and billionaire Sulaiman bin Abdulaziz Al-Rajhi, who primarily funded the mosque's construction.
It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most northernly-situated mosque in the world. It was built by businessman Mukhtad Bekmeyev, an ethnic Tatar native of Norilsk, who named it after his father Nuritdin and mother Gaynikamal. It was designed by a local architect, Josef Muire, with funds provided by British philanthropist Stephen ...