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This is a list of mosques in the Maldives. The first mosques built in the Maldives were initially made of materials that easy degraded over time such as wood, coconut, and palm leaves. Later on, by the middle of the 17th to early 19th centuries, Maldivian coral stone mosque architecture developed and flourished.
In Malé, the Islamic Centre and the Grand Friday Mosque, built in 1984 with funding from the Persian Gulf states, Pakistan, Brunei, and Malaysia, are imposing, elegant structures. [2] The gold-colored dome of this mosque is the first structure sighted when approaching Malé. [2] In mid-1991 Maldives had a total of 724 mosques and 266 women's ...
Construction of the mosque commenced in 1656 and was concluded in 1658, during the reign of Ibrahim Iskandar I (1648–1687). It was built over an earlier mosque constructed in 1153 by the first Muslim Sultan of Maldives, Dhovemi, after his conversion to Islam. Although the older mosque was reportedly refurbished by Ahmed Shihabuddeen in 1338 ...
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The mosque's golden dome is evident on the skyline of Malé and is highly visible. The mosque's interior walls are decorated with woodcarvings and Arabic calligraphy. The Centre's Grand Friday Mosque, Masjid al-Sultan Muhammad Thakurufaanu al-Auzam , was the largest mosque in the Maldives, [ 1 ] until the opening of the King Salman Mosque in ...
The Al-Yoosuf Mosque is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Eydhafushi, on the Baa Atoll, in the Maldives. The mosque opened in the 1970s, and accommodates 210 worshippers. The mosque was named after Yoosuf Kaleyfaanu. [1]
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