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The conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques occurred during the life of Muhammad [citation needed] and continued during subsequent Islamic conquests and invasions and under historical Muslim rule. [citation needed] Hindu temples, Jain Temples, churches, synagogues, and Zoroastrian fire temples have been converted into mosques.
It was the second largest mosque in the world after Great Mosque in Makkah from the around 9th century, until the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul was built in 1588. It had a surface area of 23,400 square metres (2.34 ha) and accommodated an estimated 32,000 to 40,000 worshipers.
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The Noor Islamic Cultural Center recently purchased a 220,000-square-foot office building near their mosque. Much of the building once housed the BMW Financial operation that had these huge ...
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Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly turned Istanbul’s landmark Haghia Sophia into a Muslim ...
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She estimates regular attendance at the old mosque went from 300 to 1,500 over 25 years, vastly outgrowing the University Place location. “If the weather’s nice, we had people praying indoors ...