List of mosques in the Arab League explained

This is a list of mosques in the Arab League.

align=left width=200px	Name	align=center width=160px class=unsortable	Images	align=left width=100px	Country	align=left width=200px	City	align=left width=050px	Year	align=center width=050px	G	align=left width=250px class=unsortable	Remarks
Djamaa el Kebir			Algiers	1097	U
Ketchaoua Mosque			Algiers	1612	U
El Jedid Mosque			Algiers	1880s	U
Great Mosque of Tlemcen			Tlemcen	1082	U
Al Fateh Mosque			Juffair	1990s	U
Khamis Mosque			Khamis	?	U	Believed to be the first mosque in Bahrain.
Mosque of Amr ibn al-As			Cairo	642	A
Abu Haggag Mosque			Luxor	11th Century	A
El-Tabia Mosque			Aswan		A
Mosque of Muhammad Ali			Cairo Citadel	1848	T	Most visible site in the city.
Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan			Cairo	1356	T
Mosque of Al-Hakim			Cairo	985	A
Al-Azhar Mosque			Cairo	969	A	National mosque
Blue Mosque			Cairo	1347	A
Al Hussein Mosque			Cairo	1154	T
Mosque of Ibn Tulun			Cairo	876-879	U
Abu Haggag Mosque			Luxor	11th Century	A
El-Mursi Abul Abbas Mosque			Alexandria	?	U
Al Qa'ed Ibrahim Mosque			Alexandria	?	U
Imam Husayn Mosque			Karbala	680	U	National mosque
Al Abbas Mosque			Karbala	680	U	National mosque
Imam Ali Mosque			Najaf	?	U	Shrine of Ali
Al Kadhimiya Mosque			Kadhimayn	?	U	Shrine of Twelver Shi'ah 7th and 9th Imam.
Al-Askari Mosque			Samarra	?	U	Mosque with golden dome and shrine of Twelver Shi'ah 10th and 11th Imam.
Great Mosque of Samarra			Samarra	852	U
King Abdullah I Mosque			Amman	1989	U	^[1]
King Hussein Mosque			Amman	2006	U	Praying hall 5,500 worshipers, outdoor praying area 2,500 worshippers, inaugurated on April 11, 2006, Islamic architectural style prevalent in Bilad Sham, Umayyad-style ornamentation carved in Jordanian stone.^[2]
Chinguetti Mosque			Chinguetti	?	U
Grand Mosque			Kuwait City	1979–1986	U
Sayyida Khawla Mosque			Baalbek	?	U
Khatem Al-Anbiyaa Mosque			Beirut	?	U
Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque			Beirut	2005	U
Fakhredine Mosque			Deir el Qamar	1493	U
Great Mosque of Tripoli			Tripoli	?	U
Central Mosque of Nouakchott			Nouakchott	?	U
Hassan II Mosque			Casablanca	1993	U	Masjid al Malik Hassan II
Koutoubia Mosque			Marrakech	1158	U
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque			Muscat	2001	A
Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound / Haram Ash-Sharif			Jerusalem (old city)	, considered the second oldest mosque,^[3]	U	Al-Masjid al-Aqṣá,	17	1	e=7	s=ns"> 7. ns. the former Qiblah,^[4] site of the significant event of Al-Isra' wal-Mi'raj, third holiest site in Islam. The term properly refers to the whole Temple Mount compound (seen as a single mosque).
Mosque of Omar			Jerusalem	1193	U
Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque			Beit Hanina	?	U
Mosque of Omar			Bethlehem	1860	U	The mosque was built on the spot where the Rashidun Caliph Umar prayed when he entered Bethlehem and is the oldest mosque in that city.
Sayed al-Hashim Mosque			Gaza	1850	U	The grandfather of Muhammad is said to be buried under the dome. Originally mosque built in the 12th century. Present day mosque built in 1850.
Great Mosque of Gaza			Gaza	1344	U	The Great Mosque is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the Gaza Strip and throughout its history it was Philistine temple, a Byzantine church, an Arab mosque, a Crusader cathedral and was finally transformed back to a mosque by the Mamluks.
Ibrahimi Mosque			Hebron	?	U
Al-Khadra Mosque			Nablus	1288-90	U
King Saud Mosque			Jeddah	1987	SA
Masjid al-Haram			Mecca	638, 1571	U	National mosque
Al-Masjid al-Nabawi			Medina	1817	SA
Masjid al-Quba			Medina	1986 (rebuilt)	SA
Arba Rucun Mosque			Mogadishu	?	U
Fakr ad-Din Mosque			Mogadishu	1269	U	Oldest mosque in Mogadishu. Built by the Sultanate of Mogadishu's first Sultan, Fakr ad-Din.
Mosque of Islamic Solidarity			Mogadishu	1987	U	National mosque. Largest masjid in the Horn of Africa.
Hajja Soad mosque			Khartoum	?	U
Great Mosque of Aleppo			Aleppo	715	U	Shrine of Zechariah, father of John the Baptist
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque			Damascus	682	U	Shrine of Zaynab bint Ali
Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque			Damascus	?	U	Shrine of Fatimah, the youngest daughter of Husayn ibn Ali
Sulaymaniyya Takiyya			Damascus	?	U
Nabi Habeel Mosque			Damascus	?	U	Tomb of Abel, son of Prophet Adam
Umayyad Mosque			Damascus	715	U	National mosque
Sinan Pasha Mosque			Damascus	1590	U
Aqsab Mosque			Damascus	1234	U
Darwish Pasha Mosque			Damascus	1574	U
Al-Fadael Mosque			Homs	1062	U
Al-Nouri Mosque			Homs	1129	U
Mosquée Ennasr			Aryanah	?	U
Bassi Mosque			Djerba	?	U
Mosque of Uqba			Kairouan	670	U	also known as the Great Mosque of Kairouan
Great Mosque of Mahdia			Mahdia	?	U
Great Mosque of Sousse			Sousse	?	U
Great Mosque Halfaouine			Tunis	?	U
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque			Abu Dhabi City	2000	A	National mosque
Grand Mosque of Dubai			Dubai City	1998	A
Mudhaffar Mosque			Ta'izz		A
Al-Hadi Mosque			Sa'dah		A
Al Khair Mosque, Sana'a			Sana'a		A
Saleh Mosque			Sana'a	2008	A

Group

SA	Islamist (Salafism/Wahhabism)
TJ	Tablighi Jamaat
A	Arab group
T	Turkish group
U	Unknown group (or undetermineted)

See also

List of mosques in the United Arab Emirates

Notes and References

1. Web site: King Abdullah I Mosque . 2009-09-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161202090255/http://wiki.blogjordan.com/King_Abdullah_I_Mosque . 2016-12-02 . dead .
2. http://wiki.blogjordan.com/King_Hussein_Ben_Talal_Mosque King Hussein Ben Talal Mosque
3. Book: National Geographic Society (U.S.) . de Blij . H.J. . Downs . R. . John Wiley & Sons . Wiley/National Geographic College Atlas of the World . Wiley . 2007 . 978-0-471-74117-6 . 2022-06-15 . 49. Al 'Aqsa is the second oldest mosque in Islam after the Kaaba in Mecca and is third in holiness after the mosques in Mecca and Medina. It holds up to 400,000 worshippers at one time..
4. "The Spiritual Significance of Jerusalem: The Islamic Vision. The Islamic Quarterly. 4 (1998): pp.233–242