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Mosque of Shait Gumbad (or Sixty Dome Mosque) and several others - 15th century - Sunni
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Several mosques, dating from 1322 (Old Mosque, Sunni) til the 19th century Kacak and Hamadiye mosques
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Koutoubia Mosque, 1147, Sunni, its minaret has greatly influences Spanish architecture
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Djinguereber Mosque, 1327, Sunni
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Jezzar Pasha Mosque, 1781, Sunni, the best example of Ottoman architecture in Israel (and perhaps in the entire Levant)
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Bibi-Khanym Mosque (1399-1404), Sunni
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Great Mosque (7th century) and the 9th-century Mosque of the Three Gates (both Sunni)
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Several, including the mosque-mausoleum complex of Sultan Sanjar and the 12th century Seljuk Talkhattan Baba Mosque
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19th century Mosque of El Jadida
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17th-century Kasumbek Mosque, the Palace Mosque (1441), mosque of Key-Gubad.
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Great Mosque (851) and Bu Ftata Mosque (838-841)
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Kok Gumbaz Mosque: A Friday mosque built in 1437 by Ulugh Beg in honor of his father Shah Rukh, its name meaning ?Blue Dome?.
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Jama Masjid
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Riyadha Mosque 1880
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Mina Masjid (Heavenly Mosque), Pearl Mosque, Nagina Masjid (Gem Mosque)
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Two largely reconstructed 16th century mosques
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The Great Mosque and the Aghlabid Ez-Zitouna Mosque ("Mosque of the Olive"), built in 723
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Soliman Mosque 1523
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Qabbat ul Islam Mosque
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Sobota
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Umayyad Mosque
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Siyadi complex: modest single-storey mosque with a conical minaret was originally built (AB ev)
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the oldest Friday (congregational) mosque in Iran (AB ev)
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28 mosques in the Bazaar area (AB ev)
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Mezquita (mosque) Aljama
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One prominent example which demonstrates the Ottoman diligence and interest in building mosques in the region is the building of the Small Mosque (Al-Jami' Al-Saghir) which was completed in 1907. It was built by the famous Nablusi master builder 'Abd al Rahman Al-'Aqruq and was located (...) very close to the main Sahet Al Ain at the center of the town. (Nomination text, p. 54)
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Includes 22 mosques, "served as places of worship and epicentres of community life, Koranic schools, or cultural and civic centres. Those erected along the coast played a defensive role forming together lines of surveillance. Others functioned as places of resistance and refuge. The oldest mosques included in this serial nomination date back to the 9th (as component part M11) and 10th centuries CE" (AB ev)
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Great Mosque Complex
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"There are numerous cultural monuments along the route, including ... mosques" (AB ev)
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Moudhi Mosque, which was rehabilitated as a mosque by the 20th century inhabitants (AB ev)
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"The site includes a number of notable structures such as a palace, mosques, large residences, pillar tombs, and clusters of private dwellings" (AB Ev)
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Great Mosque of the North, "constructed in 1847 by order of the colonial administration to appease the growing Muslim population."
See www.lonelyplanet.com
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Pwani Friday Mosque (origins claimed back to 1370)
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Mosque of Mulai Idris (one of the earliest mosques in the history of Morocco, 810)
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Qingjing Mosque: Located in downtown Quanzhou, the Masjid al-Ashab is one of China’s earliest mosques (1009) (AB ev)
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Grand Mosque, founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids
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The Giralda Tower was formerly the minaret of the Great Mosque (built in 1172-98)
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103 mosques, "The majestic seventh century Jami' al-Kabir (Great Mosque) is one of the oldest in the Muslim world."
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Meeran Jumma Mosque - originating from 1750s and rebuilt in 1904 - Sunni
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Shah mosque - 17th century - Shia
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Djuma Mosque (rebuilt in 1788-89, but originating from 10th century)
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?Djuma-mesjid? is one of the earliest mosques in the former USSR. It probably dates from the 8th century, though renovated or rebuilt in the 14th and 17th centuries.
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mosque built by Sultan Qalaun at Fortress of Saladin
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Mezquita - 8th century - Sunni (former mosque, now a cathedral)
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Mosque of Omar, one of the oldest surviving mosques in the world (720/1), built on the site of a pagan temple
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Berat: the Leaden Mosque (16th cent.), the Bachelors' Mosque (Mangalem, 1827), the Teqeja Helvetive Mosque (late 18th cent.)
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12th-century Great Mosque
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Several, including the as-Sunna mosque, dating from the late 18th century, which is the fourth-largest mosque in present-day Morocco. (AB ev)
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Old Mosque
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Great Mosque (9th century), plus 85 other mosques
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12th century Jame Mosque of Yazd
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Includes 5 mosques noted for their wooden interior.
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Complex includes 2 mosques
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Mosque of Christ of the Light (Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz ), 999, Sunni, the only remaining mosque in Toledo
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The Church of the Acheiropoietos was converted into a mosque and is nowadays referred to as the Old Mosque.
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Grand Mosque (presumed to be 7th century CE) were also discovered. The mosque is said to be one of the earliest built in Iran. (AB ev)
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8 mosques in a Sudanese architectural style specific to the Sudan or savannah region of West Africa. (AB ev)
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Malindi Bamnara Mosque (Sunni, 1831)
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Deggaron Mosque
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"The Fatimid Mosque, on the site of a small Crusader chapel, was built between 1101 and 1106. It is rectangular in plan, with a small semi-detached minaret in the northern corner and a small courtyard in front, which forms the roof of the well restored ancient olive press and mill." (Unesco website)
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Great Mosque of Kilwa - From 10th century but mainly 12th/13th. Sunni (?). First true dome on East African coast.
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Shahi Mosque
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Moti Mosque
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Great Friday Mosque has been fully excavated
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Jebel Haroun : The small Islamic white-washed mosque (weli) still can be seen on the top of the mountain is from the mid-14th century
See nabataea.net
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Al-Aqsa Mosque (Sunni), originating from the 8th century and rebuilt in the 11th
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Cejvan Cehaj Mosque, 1552, Sunni, a notable example of Ottoman sacred architecture in the Balkans
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"The many mosques, in a characteristic style, and especially the Mosques of the Casbah and Ben Yossef."
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Dash mosque
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Kazan Qol Sharif - the only 21st Century building identified in a nomination
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Great Mosque of Algiers, 1097, Sunni, one of the few remaining examples of Almoravid architecture
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Suleymaniye Mosque (1557 - Sunni), Sultan Ahmet Mosque (1616 - Sunni, also known als Blue Mosque) and many more
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Nine historic mosques are in the nominated area. The two most important surviving mosques architecturally are Masjid ash-Shafe
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Al-Azhar Mosque, 975, Sunni, connected to one of the world's oldest universities, home to Arab medieval scholarship; Sultan Hassan Mosque, 1356, Sunni, a masterpiece of Mamluk architecture
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82 mosques, three of which date from the 10th century
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Jama Mosque
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Umayyad Mosque - 706/715 - Sunni; Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque - ?? - Shia
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Kalyan Mosque (1514), Magoki-Attori Mosque (rebuilt in 20th century)
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The central feature is the historic mosque of tetragonal shape, preserved as an architectural ruin and one of the rare surviving architectural manifestations of the early Golden Horde period (late 13th century). The minaret of this former mosque collapsed in 1841 but was reconstructed in the year 2000 on the basis of historical drawings made on site in 1827. (AB ev)
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The Bam citadel has two mosques, one is the Jame' Mosque and the other the Hazrat Mohammad (AS) Mosque.
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Jawatha Mosque - the earliest mosque built in east Arabia (wiki)
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Grand Mosque and Mosques of Tend
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(Old) Friday Mosque - 14th-century sculpted mihrab - Ibadi
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Great Mosque (made of mud) - originating from 1300, rebuilt in 1907/9 - Sunni
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Great Mosque - 1228/29 - Sunni
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Chinguetti, the Great, "Friday Mosque" - created by the city founders sometime in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The minaret of this ancient structure is supposed to be the second oldest in continuous use anywhere in the Muslim world. At Ouadane are the remains of and old mosque, and a new one closely modelled upon it.
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"The building has spaces assigned for several functions: such as .. a mosque" (AB ev)
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Great Mosque - was the largest mosque in the Islamic World when it was built between 849 and 852, its Spiral Minaret is the most unusual in the Islamic world & the somewhat smaller look-a-like Abu Dulaf Mosque from the same period (both Sunni)
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Central town mosques in each of the 5 ksours; 11th century (reconstructed); Ibadi
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Great Mosque, origins in 11th century, its minaret can be seen as the prototype for three-tiered minarets like the Giralda in Seville (although this also is attributed to the Koutoubia Mosque of Marrakech)
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Ali Pasha Mosque built at the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century. The largest in Ohrid.
