| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Kyrgyzstan |
City / Town : Karakol
Site / Event : Central Mosque
|
 |
Detail from the mosque, built in 1910.
|
2008 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
City / Town : Karakol
|
 |
Silver domed mosque. These are common in Kyrgyzstan.
|
2008 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
Region : Issyk Kol South
District : Kaji Say
|
 |
Small settlement with silver domed mosque.
|
2008 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
City / Town : Osh
|
 |
The central mosque is the largest in the country.
|
2008 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
City / Town : Osh
Site / Event : Solomon's Throne
|
 |
The Dom Barburi Mosque.
|
2008 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
City / Town : Osh
Site / Event : Solomon's Throne
|
 |
The first Moghul Emperor, Barbur, was crowned king of Fergana in 1479 in the Dom Barburi Mosque.
|
2008 |
| Laos |
City / Town : Vientiane
|
 |
 The Friday Mosque.
|
2025 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Beirut
District : Downtown
|
 |
St George's Maronite Church and Muhammad Alamin Mosque.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Beirut
District : Downtown
Site / Event : Muhammad Alamin Mosque
|
 |
The modern Muhammad Alamin Mosque.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Beirut
District : Downtown
|
 |
Churches and mosques mix in the old city centre.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Beirut
District : Downtown
Site / Event : Mansour Assaf Mosque
|
 |
The multi-domed Mansour Assaf Mosque.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Beirut
District : Downtown
Site / Event : Mansour Assaf Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 1597.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Beirut
District : Downtown
|
 |
El Mumzi Mosque.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Beirut
District : Downtown
|
 |
Al Omar Mosque is Mamluk and is built on the site of cusader church built on the site of a mosque built on the site of a Byzantine church built on the site of a Roman temple to Jupiter.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
Site / Event : Taylan Mosque
|
 |
The Taylan Mosque dates from 1333.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
Site / Event : Taylan Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is built on the site of a Carmelite church.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
|
 |
The 14th century Al Muallaq Mosque is known as the hanging mosque due to its location on an upper storey.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The Great Mosque is in the centre of the souks.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 1315.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mosque was built on the site of a crusader cathedral leaving the bell tower as a minaret.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mosque was built by the Mamluks.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
|
 |
The Al-Attar Mosque is in a side street.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
|
 |
The Al-Attar Mosque (Perfumers' Mosque) dates from the 14th century.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
|
 |
The 15th century Al Uwaysiat Mosque.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tripoli
District : Souks
|
 |
The Al Uwaysiat Mosque is cramped between buildings.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Byblos
|
 |
The Sultan Abdul Mosque dates from 1648.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
Site / Event : Aanjar
|
 |
Small mosque in the fields near Aanjar.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
City / Town : Baalbek
|
 |
The Shia mosque in Baalbek, a Shia Muslim town in the northern Bekaa.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
City / Town : Baalbek
|
 |
The minarets of the Shia mosque.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
City / Town : Baalbek
|
 |
The blue tiled Shia mosque is run by Hezbollah.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
Site / Event : Sea Castle
|
 |
Small mosque added by the Mamluks.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
|
 |
The Great Mosque.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Mosque
|
 |
The Fakhr ud-Din Mosque dominates the main square.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 1493.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Tyre
Site / Event : El Mina
|
 |
Mosque overlooking a Roman column.
|
2015 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Kuala Lumpur
Site / Event : Friday Mosque
|
 |
The Friday Mosque.
|
1992 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Kuala Lumpur
Site / Event : Friday Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 1907 and is in Moorish style.
|
1992 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Kuala Lumpur
Site / Event : Negara Mosque
|
 |
The Negara Mosque is modern.
|
1992 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Kuala Lumpur
Site / Event : Negara Mosque
|
 |
The mosque has no dome.
|
1992 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Melaka
|
 |
Malay mosque.
|
1983 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
Region : Penang Island
City / Town : Georgetown
Site / Event : Kapitan Kling Mosque
|
 |
The Kapitan Kling Mosque.
|
1983 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
Region : Penang Island
City / Town : Georgetown
District : Chinatown
|
 |
The Malay Mosque with its unusual Egyptian style minaret.
|
1983 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Kota Bharu
|
 |
The State Mosque.
|
1992 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Kota Bharu
|
 |
The entrance of the State Mosque.
|
1992 |
| Morocco |
City / Town : Tangiers
Site / Event : Sidi Bou Abib Mosque
|
 |
The Sidi Bou Abib Mosque dates from 1917.
|
1990 |
| Morocco |
City / Town : Fez
Site / Event : Qaraouyine Mosque
|
 |
The 9th century Qaraouyine Mosque.
|
1985 |
| Morocco |
City / Town : Fez
Site / Event : Qaraouyine Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is very beautifully decorated.
|
1985 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Arabahmet Mosque
|
 |
The Arabahmet Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Arabahmet Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from the 1765.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Arabahmet Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is in a quiet residential area.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Buyuk Han
|
 |
The courtyard has a small mosque in the centre.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Selimye Mosque
|
 |
The Selimye Mosque was originally a Lusignan church built in 1208.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : House of the Eves
|
 |
The Selimiye Mosque (being renovated) from the upper terrace of the House of Eaves.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
The Yeni Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
The Haydarpasha Mosque was once a church.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Haydarpasha Mosque
|
 |
The mosque was originally a 14th century Frankish church, St Catherine's.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Kyrenia
Site / Event : Aga Cafer Mosque
|
 |
The Aga Cafer Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
Region : Kyrenia Mountains
|
 |
The mosque at Degirmenlik.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
Region : Kyrenia Mountains
|
 |
Mosque on the plains near the mountains.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
 |
Polatpasha Mosque in the new city.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
 |
View of the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
 |
The tourist office is in a former mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
 |
The 14th century St Nicholas Cathedral was converted by the Ottomans into the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
 |
Inside the cathedral-like mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Tanners' Mosque
|
 |
The Tanners' Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Tanners' Mosque
|
 |
The front of the mosque. It was formerly a church.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sinan Pasha Mosque
|
 |
Peter and Paul Cathedral is now the Sinan Pasha Mosque. It was used by the British as a grain and potato store.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sea Gate
|
 |
View of the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Varosha
Site / Event : Bilal Aga Mescidi Mosque
|
 |
Bilal Aga Mescidi Mosque (1813) has been opened for worship.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Varosha
Site / Event : Bilal Aga Mescidi Mosque
|
 |
The interior of the mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
Region : Kyrenia Mountains
City / Town : Kaplica
|
 |
The village mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
Region : Karpaz Peninsula
|
 |
Church and mosque together on the Karpaz Peninsula where several villages have mixed communities.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
Region : Karpaz Peninsula
City / Town : Sipahi
|
 |
The village mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
Region : Karpaz Peninsula
City / Town : Rizokarpaso
|
 |
The mosque serves the mainly Kurdish setters from Eastern Turkey who arrived after 1974.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
Region : Karpaz Peninsula
City / Town : Rizokarpaso
|
 |
View of the church and mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Skopje
District : Charshiya
Site / Event : Trvdina Kale
|
 |
The Mustafa Pasha Mosque (1492) from the walls of the fort.
|
2006 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Painted Mosque
|
 |
The Pasha Mosque is better known as the Painted Mosque.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Painted Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is covered with painted geometric murals.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Painted Mosque
|
 |
The mosque was paid for by two women in 1438 and was rebuilt by the Ottomans in 1833.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Painted Mosque
|
 |
The stone turbe is the tomb of the two women who financed the mosque.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Painted Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 1459.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Baba Arabati Tekke
|
 |
Small mosque with panelling and a small minaret.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Baba Arabati Tekke
|
 |
Detail of panelling on a small mosque.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Baba Arabati Tekke
|
 |
Stone mosque.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Tetovo
Site / Event : Baba Arabati Tekke
|
 |
The mosque entrance.
|
2014 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Ohrid
Site / Event : Sveti Sofija Church
|
 |
The 11th century Sveti Sofija Church was converted to a mosque under Ottoman rule.
|
2006 |
| North Macedonia |
City / Town : Ohrid
Site / Event : Sveti Sofija Church
|
 |
The church was converted to a mosque under Turkish rule.
|
2006 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Muscat
District : Old City
Site / Event : Royal Palace
|
 |
The Colonade is flanked by two mosques.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Muscat
District : Old City
|
 |
The Al-Mirani Fort overlooks the tiled Al Khor Mosque.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Muscat
District : Matrah
|
 |
The main mosque on the Corniche.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Muscat
District : Ruwi
|
 |
The Sultan Qaboos Mosque.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Muscat
District : Al-Ghubrah
Site / Event : Grand Mosque
|
 |
The Grand Mosque was built by Sultan Qaboos to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his reign.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Muscat
District : Al-Ghubrah
Site / Event : Grand Mosque
|
 |
The mosque dates from 2000 and has a distinctive dome.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Muscat
District : Al-Ghubrah
Site / Event : Grand Mosque
|
 |
The mosque contains a Persian carpet, the world's largest.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Nizwa
|
 |
Nizwa is dominated by its 17th century fort next to the main mosque.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Nizwa
Site / Event : Nizwa Mosque
|
 |
The mosque has a beautiful tiled dome.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Nizwa
Site / Event : Nizwa Mosque
|
 |
Detail of the dome and minaret of the Nizwa Mosque.
|
2008 |
| Oman |
City / Town : Nizwa
Site / Event : Nizwa Mosque
|
 |
The mosque from a nearby street.
|
2008 |
| Pakistan |
State / Province : Gilgit-Baltistan
Region : Karakoram Highway
City / Town : Hunza
District : Karimabad
|
 |
Path with a mosque as a bridge.
|
2025 |
| Pakistan |
State / Province : Gilgit-Baltistan
Region : Karakoram Highway
City / Town : Hunza
District : Ganish
|
 |
The centre of the village contains four small wooden mosques.
|
2025 |
