| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| India |
State / Province : Capital Territory
City / Town : Delhi
District : Qutab Minar
Site / Event : Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque
|
 |
A couple at the mosque.
|
1995 |
| India |
State / Province : Uttar Pradesh
City / Town : Agra
Site / Event : Agra Fort
|
 |
The Pearl Mosque dates from 1653.
|
1995 |
| India |
State / Province : Uttar Pradesh
City / Town : Agra
Site / Event : Agra Fort
|
 |
The Pearl Mosque is made of marble and was constructed by the fifth Moghul Emperor, Shah Jahan.
|
1995 |
| India |
State / Province : Uttar Pradesh
City / Town : Agra
Site / Event : Taj Mahal
|
 |
The Taj Mahal is flanked by a pair of sandstone mosques.
|
1995 |
| India |
State / Province : Uttar Pradesh
City / Town : Agra
Site / Event : Taj Mahal
|
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The Taj Mahal viewed from one of the two mosques that flank it.
|
1995 |
| India |
State / Province : Uttar Pradesh
City / Town : Fatehpur Sikri
|
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View of the Dargar Mosque.
|
1995 |
| India |
State / Province : Uttar Pradesh
City / Town : Fatehpur Sikri
|
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The Persian style Jami Masjid is said to be a copy of a mosque at Mecca.
|
1983 |
| India |
State / Province : Uttar Pradesh
City / Town : Fatehpur Sikri
|
 |
The stone cutters' mosque.
|
1983 |
| India |
State / Province : Rajasthan
City / Town : Ajmer
Site / Event : Jain School and Mosque
|
 |
A Jain school converted into a mosque by the addition of a Persian style gate.
|
1983 |
| India |
State / Province : Rajasthan
City / Town : Ajmer
Site / Event : Dargah
|
 |
The marble mosque was built by the Moghul Emperor, Shah Jahan.
|
1983 |
| India |
State / Province : Jammu and Kashmir
City / Town : Srinagar
Site / Event : Shah Hamdan Mosque
|
 |
The wooden Shah Hamdan Mosque.
|
1983 |
| India |
State / Province : Jammu and Kashmir
City / Town : Srinagar
Site / Event : Shah Hamdan Mosque
|
 |
The Shah Hamdan Mosque is made of wood.
|
1983 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Tipu Sultan Mosque
|
 |
The Tipu Sultan Mosque dates from 1842.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Tipu Sultan Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is next to a busy street.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Nakhoda Mosque
|
 |
The Moghul style Nakhoda Mosque in the heart of the Muslim Bazaar.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Nakhoda Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is set in the narrow streets of the bazaar and dates from 1926.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
 |
The main mosque.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Warangal
|
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Entrance to a mosque.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
|
 |
Typical Hyderabadi mosque.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
|
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Shops overlooked by a mosque.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
Site / Event : Mecca Mosque
|
 |
The Mecca Mosque was completed in 1687.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
Site / Event : Mecca Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is made from granite hauled 11km by a team of 1400 bullocks.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
Site / Event : Mecca Mosque
|
 |
The mosque has a capacity of ten thousand.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
Site / Event : Mecca Mosque
|
 |
Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb added to the mosque in 1693.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
Site / Event : Mecca Mosque
|
 |
The mosque took 70 years to build by the Qutb Shah Nizams.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
Site / Event : Bazaar
|
 |
Small Hindu shrine next to a mosque.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
District : Golconda Fort
Site / Event : Ibrahim Mosque
|
 |
The Ibrahim Mosque.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
District : Golconda Fort
Site / Event : Ibrahim Mosque
|
 |
View from the mosque.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Andhra Pradesh
City / Town : Hyderabad
District : Golconda Fort
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
View to the Ibrahim Mosque.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Trivandrum
|
 |
A typical mosque. Trivandrum has a population that is a third Muslim.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
Region : Backwaters
City / Town : Alleppey
|
 |
A typical mosque in Alleppey without a dome or minaret.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cranganore
Site / Event : Cheraman Mosque
|
 |
The Cheraman Mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Kerala
City / Town : Cranganore
Site / Event : Cheraman Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is the oldest in India (built 629). The rear part is original.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Srirangapatnam
District : Fort
Site / Event : Masjid-e-Ala
|
 |
Masjid-e-Ala is a mosque built by Tipu Sultan, the last ruler of the city.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Gulbarga
District : Gulbarga Fort
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
Dominating the Fort is the Great Mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Gulbarga
District : Gulbarga Fort
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from the 14th century.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Gulbarga
District : Gulbarga Fort
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mosque was built by a Moorish architect in imitation of the mosque in Cordoba, Spain.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Bijapur
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The Great Mosque is the largest in Bijapur.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Bijapur
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The Great Mosque was built in 1557.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Bijapur
|
 |
Mecca Mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Bijapur
|
 |
Houses close to abandoned tombs and mosques.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Karnataka
City / Town : Badami
|
 |
A small mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Goa
City / Town : Ponda
Site / Event : Safe Mosque
|
 |
The Safe Mosque has no minaret and is next to a water tank.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Goa
City / Town : Ponda
Site / Event : Safe Mosque
|
 |
The Safe Mosque (1560).
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Goa
City / Town : Vasco de Gama
|
 |
Waterside mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Maharashtra
City / Town : Aurangabad
|
 |
A mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Maharashtra
City / Town : Daulatabad
Site / Event : Hindu Temple
|
 |
A Hindu temple that became a mosque with the addition of a dome and then returned to being a Hindu temple.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Maharashtra
City / Town : Daulatabad
Site / Event : Hindu Temple
|
 |
A Hindu statue in the mihrab (prayer niche) of a mosque that was originally converted from a Hindu temple.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Maharashtra
City / Town : Khuldabad
|
 |
Mosque behind houses.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Maharashtra
City / Town : Khuldabad
|
 |
Blue coloured mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Maharashtra
City / Town : Khuldabad
|
 |
Mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Bhopal
Site / Event : Taj ul Masjid
|
 |
The Taj ul Masjid is India's largest mosque and one of the largest in Asia.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Bhopal
Site / Event : Taj ul Masjid
|
 |
The mosque was begun in the 19th century but never completed.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Bhopal
Site / Event : Jama Masjid
|
 |
Entrance to the mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Bhopal
Site / Event : Jama Masjid
|
 |
The mosque was built by one of the female rulers, Kudsia Begum.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Bhopal
Site / Event : Jama Masjid
|
 |
The decorated marble interior of the mosque.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Mandu
Site / Event : Dilawar Khan Mosque
|
 |
The Dilawar Khan Mosque dates from 1405.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Mandu
Site / Event : Dilawar Khan Mosque
|
 |
The mosque was built from the ruins of Hindu temples.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Mandu
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The Great Mosque is the largest building in Mandu.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Mandu
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 1454.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Mandu
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mosque has 59 domes of all sizes.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Mandu
Site / Event : Malik Mughith Mosque
|
 |
The Malik Mughith Mosque was built in 1432.
|
1989 |
| India |
State / Province : Madhya Pradesh
City / Town : Mandu
Site / Event : Malik Mughith Mosque
|
 |
The mosque was constructed from destroyed Hindu temples.
|
1989 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sumatra
City / Town : Medan
Site / Event : Raya Mosque
|
 |
The Raya Mosque dates from 1906.
|
1992 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sumatra
City / Town : Brastagi
|
 |
Mosque.
|
1992 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sumatra
City / Town : Bukittinggi
|
 |
Traditional mosque.
|
1992 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sumatra
City / Town : Bukittinggi
District : Lawang Top
|
 |
A mosque. The Minangkabau are Muslim but matriarchial.
|
1992 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Jakarta
Site / Event : Istiqal Mosque
|
 |
The modern Istiqal Mosque.
|
1983 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Jakarta
Site / Event : Istiqal Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is set in a large garden.
|
1983 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Jakarta
Site / Event : Istiqal Mosque
|
 |
Mosque guards.
|
1983 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Bandung
|
 |
The Central Mosque.
|
1992 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Cirebon
|
 |
Cirebon Mosque.
|
1992 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Jogjakarta
Site / Event : Taram Sari
|
 |
Underground mosque.
|
1992 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Surakarta
Site / Event : Kraton
|
 |
The sultan's mosque.
|
1983 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Surakarta
Site / Event : Kraton
|
 |
The minaret of the palace mosque.
|
1983 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Java
City / Town : Malang
|
 |
Java style mosque.
|
1992 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Bali
City / Town : Amlapura
|
 |
Small mosque.
|
1983 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
City / Town : Makassar
|
 |
Upper storey mosque.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
City / Town : Makassar
District : Paotere Harbour
|
 |
Mosque.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
City / Town : Makassar
Site / Event : Balla Lompoa
|
 |
A mosque in the palace grounds.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : Tana Toraja
City / Town : Rantepao
|
 |
Mosque in the centre.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : Tana Toraja
City / Town : Rantepao
|
 |
The mosque has traditional Toraja elements.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : Tana Toraja
City / Town : Rantepao
|
 |
Detail of the mosque.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : Masamba
|
 |
Mosque with golden domes.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
City / Town : Tentena
|
 |
Mosque.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : East Peninsula
|
 |
Mosque at Pancoma.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : East Peninsula
|
 |
Mosque at Podi.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : East Peninsula
|
 |
Mosque near Morowo.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : East Peninsula
|
 |
Small roadside mosque.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
Region : East Peninsula
|
 |
The mosque at Banano.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
City / Town : Ampana
|
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One of the many mosques in the town.
|
2016 |
| Indonesia |
State / Province : Sulawesi
City / Town : Ampana
|
 |
Green mosque.
|
2016 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Tehran
District : Bazaar
Site / Event : Imam Khomeini Mosque
|
 |
The entrance to the Imam Khomeini Mosque dates from the early 18th century.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Tehran
District : Bazaar
Site / Event : Imam Khomeini Mosque
|
 |
The interior of the mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Kashan
Site / Event : Agha Bozorg Mosque
|
 |
The Agha Bozorg Mosque dates from the 19th century.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Kashan
Site / Event : Agha Bozorg Mosque
|
 |
The entrance to the mosque has a pair of wind towers, used since ancient times for air conditioning.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Kashan
Site / Event : Agha Bozorg Mosque
|
 |
The mosque has a sunken courtyard used as an Islamic school.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
|
 |
The southern end of the square is dominated by the spectacular Imam Mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Site / Event : Imam Mosque
|
 |
The 30m high entrance portal of the Imam Mosque.
|
2010 |
| Iran |
City / Town : Esfahan
District : Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Site / Event : Imam Mosque
|
 |
Detail of the tilework on the entrance portal of the mosque.
|
2010 |
were added from 1 March 2026.