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A grand mosque, or congregational mosque, Friday mosque, great mosque or jama masjid, is a type of mosque which is the main mosque of a certain area that hosts the special Friday noon prayers known as jumu'ah. [1] [2] The following is a list of congregational mosques by country or region.
The Grand Mosque of Paris (French: Grande Mosquée de Paris, pronounced [ɡʁɑ̃d mɔske də paʁi]; Arabic: مسجد باريس الكبير), also known as the Great Mosque of Paris or simply the Paris Mosque, located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, is one of the largest mosques in France. It comprises prayer rooms, an outdoor garden, a ...
The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, regularly used for Congregational prayer. [1] [2]A congregational mosque or Friday mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد جَامِع, masjid jāmi‘, or simply: جَامِع, jāmi‘; Turkish: Cami), or sometimes great mosque or grand mosque (Arabic: جامع كبير, jāmi‘ kabir; Turkish: Ulu Cami), is a mosque for hosting the Friday noon prayers ...
Great Mosque of Kairouan; Kaj Mosque; Jami Kampung Baru Inpak Mosque; Jameh Mosque of Kashmar; Kauman Great Mosque; Jameh Mosque of Kerman; Jameh Mosque of Kermanshah; Jami Mosque, Khambhat; Jameh Mosque of Khansar; Juma Mosque (Khiva) Jamia Mosque (Khudabad) Great Mosque of Kilwa; Kolloorvila Juma Mosque; Grand Mosque of Kuwait
Jāmeh Mosque of Zavareh, built of brick, dates to the Seljuk period and is the earliest dated example of a four-iwan plan. This type of plan would continue to be optimized and developed throughout the Muslim world and applied not only to mosques but other types of structures as well, including madrasas, hospitals, and even caravansaries.
Detail of the left wall of Ivan with an Islamic calligraphy of Al-Mulk, 67th chapter (sura) of the Quran. Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami mausoleum complex (Persian: مجموعهٔ آرامگاهی شیخ احمد جامی) is a collection of religious buildings, mosques, houses and tombstones all around the central tombstone of Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami, Iranian Muslim sufi who lived between 1048 and 1141 in ...
Many major European cities are home to mosques, like the Grand Mosque of Paris, that incorporate domes, minarets, and other features often found with mosques in Muslim-majority countries. [46] The first mosque in North America was founded by Albanian Americans in 1915, but the continent's oldest surviving mosque, the Mother Mosque of America ...
Al-Qibli Mosque (al-Jami' al-Aqsa) Jerusalem (old city) Palestine: 637: A Muslim prayer hall with a silver-colored lead dome located in the southern part of Al-Aqsa (Temple Mount), built by the Rashidun caliph Umar ibn Al-Khattab. Al-Shuaibiyah Mosque: Aleppo Syria: 637: Ibrahimi Mosque: Hebron Palestine: 637 [116] Great Mosque of Aleppo ...