Halal Travel Guide: My Mosque Journey Part 2 — 634 Mosques in 9 Years
Summary: This second part of a nine-year mosque journey records the later section of a personal route that reached 634 mosques. It keeps the original list-style structure, place names, dates, and mosque details while presenting the record in English as one long article.
Tripoli
Taynal Mosque
Built by the Mamluk dynasty in 1336.
Hanging Mosque (Mu'allaq)
Built by the Ottoman dynasty in 1561.
Mansouri Great Mosque
Built by the Mamluk dynasty in 1294, it is the first building the Mamluks constructed in Tripoli.
Al-Uwaysiyat Mosque
First built during the Mamluk period in 1461, then renovated by the Ottoman dynasty in 1534.
Attar Mosque
Built in the 1350s, it is known as the most beautiful ancient mosque in Tripoli.
Closed
Tawba Mosque
Estimated to have been built during the Mamluk period, it was rebuilt in 1612.
Burtasi Mosque
Built between the end of the 13th century and 1324.
Baalbek
Umayyad Great Mosque
Built in 715 by the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I, it is one of the oldest existing mosques in the world.
Sidon
El Kikhia Mosque
Built in 1625, it is a representative work of Lebanese architecture from the Ottoman period.
El Qtaishieh Mosque
Built in the 16th century.
Great Mosque of Omar (Al-Omari Mosque).
Dates back to the Crusader era and was built by the Mamluk Sultanate in 1291.
El-Bahr Mosque.
Built in 1373.
El Barrane Mosque.
Built between the late 16th century and early 17th century.
Saudi Arabia.
Medina.
Prophet's Mosque (Al-Masjid an-Nabawi).
It has been expanded many times throughout history, with the core area built during the Ottoman Empire.
Al-Ghamama Mosque.
Originally built during the Umayyad Caliphate and rebuilt by the Ottoman Empire in 1859.
Abu Bakr As-Siddiq Mosque.
The current structure was rebuilt by the Ottoman Empire in 1838.
As-Saqiya Mosque.
The current structure was built during the Ottoman period.
Anbariya Mosque.
Built by the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
Musabbih Mosque.
The current structure is an ancient building made of black volcanic basalt.
Al-Fath Mosque.
Built during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Umar II (reigned 717-720) and later renovated.
Salman Al-Farsi Mosque.
Built during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Umar II (reigned 717-720) and later renovated.
Umar bin Khattab Mosque
Built during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Umar II (reigned 717-720) and later renovated.
Ali bin Abu Talib Mosque
Built during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Umar II (reigned 717-720) and later renovated.
Fatimah Az-Zahra Mosque
Built during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid I (reigned 1839-1861)
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Quba Mosque
First built in 622, rebuilt in 1986
Jeddah
Al-Shafi'i Mosque
The oldest surviving coral stone mosque in Jeddah. It was first built by a Yemeni king in 1250, and the main hall was rebuilt by an Indian merchant in 1539.
Abu Anaba Mosque
Construction date unknown
Mecca
The Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)
First built in 638, it is still being expanded today
Egypt
Cairo
Al-Hakim Mosque
Built by the Fatimid dynasty between 990 and 1013
Al-Aqmar Mosque
Built by the Fatimid dynasty in 1125-1126
Al-Azhar Mosque
Built by the Fatimid dynasty in 972, it was expanded and renovated many times later.
Al-Hussein Mosque
Built in 1154 and rebuilt in 1874.
Abu al-Dhahab Mosque
Built in 1774, it is the last large building complex constructed by the Mamluks in Egypt.
Al-Ashraf Mosque
Built by a Mamluk Sultan in 1424.
Al-Muayyad Mosque
Built by a Mamluk Sultan between 1415 and 1421, it is the last large hypostyle mosque in Cairo.
Salih Tala'i Mosque
Built by the Fatimid dynasty in 1160, it is the last important historical building from the Fatimid era still standing.
Ahmad al-Mihmandar Mosque
Built by a Mamluk Emir between 1324 and 1325.
Qijmas al-Ishaqi Mosque
Built by a Mamluk Emir between 1480 and 1481, it is a classic example and masterpiece of late Mamluk architecture.
Mahmud al-Kurdi Mosque
Built in 1395 by a high-ranking official of the Mamluk dynasty.
Al-Rifa'i Mosque
Originally a Sufi lodge, it was rebuilt into the current large mosque by the Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt between 1869 and 1912.
Amir Altinbugha al-Mardani Mosque
Built by a Mamluk Emir between 1338 and 1340.
Umm al-Sultan Sha'ban Mosque
Built by a Mamluk Sultan between 1368 and 1369.
Blue Mosque
Built by a Mamluk emir in 1347, an Ottoman Janissary general decorated the qibla wall with Ottoman tiles between 1652 and 1654.
Sultan Hassan Mosque
Built by a Mamluk sultan between 1356 and 1363, it was the most expensive mosque built in medieval Cairo.
Ibn Tulun Mosque
Built by the Tulunid dynasty between 876 and 879, it is the oldest mosque building still standing in Egypt.
Taghribirdi Mosque
Built by a Mamluk emir in 1440.
Shaykhu Mosque
Built by a great Mamluk emir in 1349.
Qanibay al-Muhammadi Mosque
Built by a high-ranking official of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1413.
Tunisia
Tunis City
Zaytuna Mosque
Built by the Umayyad dynasty after they conquered Carthage in 698, its current form mostly dates to the reconstruction by the Aghlabid dynasty in 864-865. It is the second great mosque built by Arabs in the Maghreb region.
New Mosque (Jemaa el-Jedid)
Built by the Husainid dynasty of Tunis in 1726.
Ksar Mosque
Built by the Banu Khurasan dynasty in 1106, it was converted to the Hanafi school by the Ottoman dynasty in 1598, and rebuilt in its current Moorish style by Bonkhta in 1647-1648.
Hammuda Pasha Mosque
Built by the Muradids dynasty in 1655, it is the second Hanafi mosque in Tunis.
Sidi Mahrez Mosque
Built by the Muradids dynasty in 1692.
Kasbah Mosque (Gubao Si)
Built by the Hafsid dynasty between 1230 and 1233, this is the second Friday mosque in Tunis.
Closed
El Ichbili Mosque
The mosque was built in the 10th century, and the minaret (bangke ta) was added in the 14th century.
Youssef Dey Mosque
Built by the Ottoman dynasty in 1616, it is the first Ottoman-style mosque in Tunis.
Sousse
Great Mosque
Built by the Aghlabid dynasty in 851, the main prayer hall was expanded to the south in the 10th century.
Kairouan
Great Mosque
Founded in 670 by the Arab Umayyad dynasty, it was rebuilt and renovated many times before reaching its current appearance in the 9th century. It houses the world's oldest surviving minaret, concave mihrab, and minbar.
Three Doors Mosque (Sanmen Si)
Built in 866, it features the oldest decorated facade of any Islamic religious building in the world.
Barber Mosque (Lifashi Si)
The main prayer hall was newly built in 1629.
Monastir
Great Mosque
Originally built during the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9th century and renovated in the 18th century.
Hammamet
Great Mosque
Construction began in the 12th century and was officially completed in the 13th century.
India
Delhi
Qutb Mosque (Qutb Masjid)
Construction started in 1193, the first mosque in Delhi.
Jamaat Khana Mosque
Built after 1296, its style is very close to the Khalji dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Tohfe Wala Gumbad Mosque
Built in 1303 when the Khalji dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate constructed Siri City.
Ruins
Begampur Mosque
Built after 1351, an official mosque of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Ruins
Firoz Shah Kotla Mosque
Built in 1354, an official mosque of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Khirki Mosque
Built in the 1370s, an official mosque of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Ruins
Kali Mosque
Built in 1370, an official mosque of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Kalan Mosque
Built in 1387, an official mosque of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Bara Gumbad Mosque
Built in 1494, during the Lodi dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Ruins
Madhi Mosque
15th century, Lodi Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate
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Nili Mosque
1505, Lodi Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate
Rajon ki Baoli Mosque
1506, Lodi Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate
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Muhammad Wali Mosque
Late 15th to early 16th century, Lodi Dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate
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Jamali Kamali Mosque
1528, Mughal Dynasty
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Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque
1541, Royal Mosque of the Sur Dynasty
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Salimgarh Fort Mosque
1546, Sur Dynasty
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Isa Khan Mosque
1547, Sur Dynasty
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Khairul Manazil Mosque
1561, Mughal Empire
Afsarwala Mosque
1566, Mughal Empire
Ruins
Jama Mosque
1656, Mughal Empire Friday Mosque (Juma Masjid)
Fatehpuri Mosque
1650, Mughal Empire
Pearl Mosque (Moti Masjid)
1659, Mughal Empire Royal Private Mosque
Sunehri Mosque
1751, Mughal Empire
Safdarjung Mosque
1754, the last great mosque of the Mughal Empire
Hyderabad
Mecca Mosque (Mecca Masjid)
Built by the Qutb Shahi dynasty between the late 16th and early 17th centuries
Paigah Tombs Mosque
Built during the Asaf Jahi dynasty in the 18th to 19th centuries
Taramati Mosque
Built in 1518 for the Qutb Shahi Sultan's court and nobility
Zanana Mosque
Behind the walls of Golconda Fort
Ibrahim Mosque
Built in the late 16th century
United Arab Emirates
Dubai
Nasser bin Obaid bin Lootah Mosque
Built in 1910
Almulla Mosque
Traditional Gulf style
Great Mosque
Built in 1900 and rebuilt in 1998
Sharjah
Obeid Bin Issa Mosque
Built in the 19th century, the first mosque in Sharjah
Al-Daleel Mosque
Traditional Gulf style
Al Jame'i Mosque
Friday mosque in the old city of Sharjah, traditional Gulf style
Russia
Moscow
Historic mosque of the Tatar community
Dating back to 1712, rebuilt by Tatar merchants in 1823
Moscow Cathedral Mosque
Built in 1904 and rebuilt in 2015
Kazan
Marjani Mosque
Built between 1766 and 1770, this is the oldest surviving mosque in Kazan.
Apanay Mosque
Built between 1768 and 1771.
Galeevskaya Mosque
Built between 1798 and 1801.
İske Taş Mosque
Built in 1802.
White Mosque
Built between 1801 and 1805, closed in 1929.
Ruins
Pink Mosque
Built in 1808.
Kazan Higher Madrasa
Blue Mosque
Built between 1815 and 1819.
Nurulla Mosque
Built between 1845 and 1849.
Sultan Mosque
Built in 1868.
Bornay Mosque
First built in 1799, rebuilt in 1872.
Azimov Mosque
Built between 1887 and 1890, known as the most beautiful mosque in Kazan.
Zakabannaya Mosque
Built between 1924 and 1926 to mark the millennium of the Volga Bulgars' conversion to Islam.
Kul Sharif Mosque.
Built in 2005, it is the largest mosque in Kazan.
Bolghar.
Great Mosque of Bolghar.
First built during the Golden Horde period, with corner towers added in the 1440s.
Ruins
Small Minaret (Maly Minaret).
Built during the late 14th century in the Golden Horde period.
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Ukraine.
Bakhchysarai (Russian-occupied).
Great Khan Mosque.
First built by the Crimean Khanate in 1532 and restored in the 1740s.
Small Khan Mosque.
Built in the 16th century for members of the Crimean Khanate royal family and high-ranking officials.
Orta Mosque.
The Friday Mosque (Juma Mosque) of Bakhchysarai, which dates back to at least 1674.
Ismi Khan Mosque.
Built between the 17th and 18th centuries, it was used as a warehouse for a long time.
Ruins
Molla Mustafa Friday Mosque (Juma Mosque).
Dates back to the 17th century.
Tahtali Mosque.
Built in 1707.
Malik Ashtar Shrine Mosque.
Built during the Crimean Khanate era, the mosque was destroyed in 1955, with only the pulpit (minbar) surviving. Once a Sufi center on the Crimean Peninsula.
Ruins
Uzbek Khan Mosque (Zhanibiehan Si).
First built in 1346 during the Golden Horde period, rebuilt by the Crimean Khanate in 1455, and excavated in 1928.
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Iran.
Rey.
Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine Mosque.
First built in the 1090s during the Seljuk Empire, then expanded in the 16th century during the Safavid Dynasty.
Tehran.
Imamzadeh Saleh Shrine Mosque.
Dates back to the late Safavid Dynasty through the Afsharid Dynasty in the 18th century.