World’s Top 20 Largest Mosques

20. Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem

 

Al-Aqsa Mosque also known as al-Aqsa, is an Islamic holy place in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site that includes the mosque (along with the Dome of the Rock) is also referred to as al-Haram ash-Sharif or “Sacred Noble Sanctuary”, a site also known as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, the place where the First and Second Temples are generally accepted to have stood. Widely considered as the third holiest site in Islam, Muslims believe that the prophet Muhammad was transported from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca to al-Aqsa during the Night Journey. Islamic tradition holds that Muhammad led prayers towards this site until the seventeenth month after the emigration, when God ordered him to turn towards the Ka’aba. Al-Aqsa is comes as twentieth largest mosque of the world. A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, Masjid. The mosque serves as a place where Muslims can come together for prayer as well as a center for information, education and dispute settlement. This post features top 20 largest mosques of the world, hope you will like our effort.

10 Oldest Mosques in the World

01. Quba Mosque, Saudi Arabia

First Built: 622

The designation of the oldest mosque in the world requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving building, and the oldest in the sense of oldest mosque congregation. Even here, there is the distinction between old mosque buildings that have been in continuous use as mosques, and those that have been converted to other purposes; and between buildings that have been in continuous use as mosques and those that were shuttered for many decades. In terms of congregations, they are distinguished between early established congregations that have been in continuous existence, and early congregations that ceased to exist (wikipedia).

Landmarks of the Prophet's Mosque

The Prophet's Mosque Squares

Included the expansion of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz of the Prophet's Mosque, the establishment and improvement yards Prophet's Mosque from the northern, western and south, which has an area(235.000 M2) to take it for a pray, it's about (450.000) worshiper and challenge these squares, walls and gates on each side, has been paving this squares with colored marble and granite, and above that Islamic geometric.

 

facilitate the movement of large numbers of visitors to the mosque, was set up under the squares parking with a total area (292.000 M2) capacity (approximately 4.200) Cars also include basements of the squares on the places of service visitors to the mosque and there are (15) facility dedicated one of it for the gallery building and expansion Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. And (14) made up of three floors. the first and the third was devoted to the ablutions and toilets, and the second floor to the work and technical equipment,