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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.
This table lists former mosques with identified original buildings or ruins. It also includes those churches where the original structure of the mosque no longer survives and the church was built at the site of a former mosque. It also includes those that were originally churches that were converted to mosques and later reconverted to churches.
Mosques converted from churches (3 C, 15 P) ... Conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques; A. Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra; Alamgir Mosque; Almonaster la Real ...
Mosques converted from churches in the Ottoman Empire (6 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Mosques converted from churches" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Al Sadiq Mosque (or Wabash Mosque) was commissioned in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood in city of Chicago. [1] The Al-Sadiq Mosque is one of America 's earliest built mosques and the oldest standing mosque in the country today.
The Al-Sadiq Mosque in Chicago and the Powers Street Mosque are older by a decade but were converted from existing buildings to be used as a Muslim house of worship. An older purpose-built mosque is the Highland Park Mosque , built in 1921 to serve immigrant workers in the Detroit Metro Area, which was sold in 1926.
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 ...
Buildings no longer used as mosques. These buildings may be used as a different place of worship such as temples, churches, and synagogues. These buildings may be used as museums as the Hagia Sophia , a former church, had been before its reversion into a mosque.