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A list of 'famous' mosques around the world:

Name	Country	City	Year	G	Remarks
Pul-e Khishti Mosque	Afghanistan	Kabul	1800	U	The mosque originally was erected in the late 18th Century, but largely rebuilt under Zahir Shah in the late 1960s.
Great Mosque of Algiers	Algeria	Algiers	1097	U
Ketchoua Mosque	Algeria	Algiers	1612	U
Centro Cultural Islam King Fahd	Argentina	Buenos Aires	2006	SA	Spanish Wiki: Centro Cultural Islámico Rey Fahd
Blue Mosque	Armenia	Yerevan	1766	U
Auburn Gallipoli Mosque	Australia	Auburn (Sydney)	1979	T	Turkish Sunni Muslims
Lakemba Mosque	Australia	Lakemba (Sydney)	1977	U	Lebanese Moslems Association
Al Fateh Mosque	Bahrain	Juffair	2006	U
Baitul Mukarram	Bangladesh	Dhaka	1960s	U	National mosque
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	1959	U	National mosque
Baitunnur	Canada	Calgary	2008	AMJ	Largest mosque in Canada
Niujie Mosque	China	Beijing	996	U
Id Kah Mosque	China	Kashgar, Xinjiang	1442	U
Muslim Mosque in Lhasa	China	Lhasa, Tibet	?	U
Great Mosque of Xi'an	China	Xi'an, Shaanxi	742	U	One's of the world oldest functioning Mosques. It was first built in the Tang Dynasty (Emperor Xuanzong, 685-762)
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab	Colombia	Maicao	1997	U
Mosque of Mohamed Ali	Egypt	Cairo Citadel	1848	U	Most visible site in the city
Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan	Egypt	Cairo	1356	U
Al-Azhar Mosque	Egypt	Cairo	969	U	National mosque
Blue Mosque	Egypt	Cairo	1347	U	One of very few blue mosques
Al Hussein Mosque	Egypt	Cairo	1154	U
Mosque of Ibn Tulun	Egypt	Cairo	876-879	U
El-Mursi Abul Abbas Mosque	Egypt	Alexandria	?	U
Al Qa'ed Ibrahim Mosque	Egypt	Alexandria	?	U
Hatem Mosque	Egypt	Alexandria	?	U
El-Tabia Mosque	Egypt	Aswan	?	U
Mosque of Amr ibn al-As	Egypt	Fustat	642	U	Oldest mosque in Africa
Abu Haggag Mosque	Egypt	Luxor	?	U
Masjid Hamza	Egypt	Suez	?	U
Babri Mosque	India	Ayodhya	1528	–	destroyed on Dezember, 6th 1992
Jama Masjid	India	Delhi	1656	U
Masjid Raya Baiturrahman	Indonesia	Banda Aceh	1881	U	Largest Mosque in Aceh, one of oldest Mosque in Indonesia
Istiqlal Mosque	Indonesia	Jakarta	1975	U	National Mosque, largest Mosque in Southeast Asia
Masjid Agung Demak	Indonesia	Demak	1466	U	Oldest Mosque in Java
Imam Hussain Mosque	Iraq	Karbala	680	U	National mosque
Al Abbas Mosque	Iraq	Karbala	680	U	National mosque
Imam Ali Mosque	Iraq	Najaf	?	U	Shrine of Ali
Al Kadhimiya Mosque	Iraq	Kadhimayn	?	U	Shrine of Twelver Shi'ah 7th and 9th Imams
Al Askari Mosque	Iraq	Samarra	?	U	Shrine of Twelver Shi'ah 10th and 11th Imams
Great Mosque of Samarra	Iraq	Samarra	852	U
Imam Ridha Mosque	Iran	Mashhad	?	U	Shrine of Twelver Shi'ah 8th Imam
Ma'soomah Qom Shrine	Iran	Qom	?	U	Shrine of Fatimah al-Ma'soomah, sister of Twelver Shi'ah 8th Imam
Jamé Mosque of Isfahan	Iran	Isfahan	?	U	The mosque is the result of continual construction, reconstruction, additions and renovations on the site from around 771 to the end of the 20th century.
Shah Mosque	Iran	Isfahan	1611	U
Goharshad Mosque	Iran	Mashhad	1418	U	An ancient mosque found within Imam Ridha Mosque
Jame' Atiq Mosque of Qazvin	Iran	Qazvin	807	U	The oldest part of the mosque is said to have been constructed by the orders of Harun al-Rashid. Later additions were made, the last being during the late Safavid era. The double layered main dome of the mosque is from the Seljuk era, and is locked to the public.
Jamkaran Mosque	Iran	Jamkaran (Qum)	984	U	A mosque built in the name of the 12th Twelver Shi'a Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi.
Blue Mosque	Iran	Tabriz	1465	U
Mahmood Mosque	Israel	Kababir (Haifa)	1931	AMJ
Hassan Bek Mosque	Israel	Jaffa (Tel Aviv)	1916	U
Al-Aqsa Mosque	Disputed	Jerusalem	705	U	National mosque
Dome of the Rock	Disputed	Jerusalem	691	U
Kobe Mosque	Japan	Kobe	1935	U
Khatem Al Anbiyaa Mosque	Lebanon	Beirut	?	U
Zahir Mosque	Malaysia	Alor Star	1912	U
Masjid Jamek	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	1909	U
Masjid Negara	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	1965	U	National mosque
Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	2000	U
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque	Malaysia	Shah Alam	1988	U
Putra Mosque	Malaysia	Putrajaya	1999	U
Great Mosque of Djenné	Mali	Djenné	1300	U	The first mosque on the site was built in the 13th century, but the current structure dates from 1907.
Djinguereber Mosque	Mali	Timbuktu	1327	U
Chinguetti Mosque	Mauretania	Chinguetti	?	U
Jumma Mosque Mauritius	Mauritius	Port Louis	1853	U	One of the first mosques built in the Indian Ocean
Hassan II Mosque	Morocco	Casablanca	1993	U
Koutoubia Mosque	Morocco	Marrakech	1158	U
Canterbury Mosque	New Zealand	Christchurch, Canterbury		U
Abuja National Mosque	Nigeria	Abuja	1984	U	National mosque
Great Mosque of Kano	Nigeria	Kano	?	U
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque	Oman	Muscat	2001	A	National mosque
Faisal Mosque	Pakistan	Islamabad	1986	U	National mosque
Masjid e Tooba	Pakistan	Karachi	1969	U
Badshahi Mosque	Pakistan	Lahore	1673	U
Shahjahan Mosque	Pakistan	Thatta	1647	U
Mosque of Omar	Palestinian territories	Bethlehem	1860	U
Great Mosque of Gaza	Palestinian territories	Gaza	1344	U
Masjid Al-Dahab	Philippines	Manila	1976	U
Ulugh Beg Madrasa	Uzbekistan	Samarkand	?	U
King Saud Mosque	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	1987	SA
Masjid al-Haram	Saudi Arabia	Mecca	638, 1571	U	National mosque
Al-Masjid al-Nabawi	Saudi Arabia	Medina	1817	SA
Masjid Sultan	Singapore	Singapore	1826	U
Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque	Sri Lanka	Colombo	1909	U	Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque at Second Cross Street, in the Pettah Bazaar area, is one of the most striking buildings in Colombo. Completed in 1909, the Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque is striped red and white like a layer cake, a design that is reminiscent of another mosque which was also completed in 1909, the Masjid Jamek of Kuala Lumpur. The architect of the Jami-Ul-Alfar was one H.L. Saibo Lebbe, and construction began in 1908, completing the following year.
Hajja Soad mosque	Sudan	Khartoum	?	U
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque	Syria	Damascus	682	U	Shrine of Zaynab bint Ali
Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque	Syria	Damascus	?	U	Shrine of Fatimah, the youngest daughter of Husayn ibn Ali
Nabi Habeel Mosque	Syria	Damascus	?	U	Tomb of Abel, son of Prophet Adam
Umayyad Mosque	Syria	Damascus	715	U	National mosque
Great Mosque of Aleppo	Syria	Aleppo	715	U	Shrine of Zechariah, father of John the Baptist
Taipei Grand Mosque	Taiwan	Taipei	?	U
300 Years Mosque	Thailand	Ban Talo Mano, Tambon Subo Sawo, Narathiwat	1624	U
Mosque of Uqba	Tunisia	Kairouan	670	U
Kocatepe Mosque	Turkey	Ankara	1987	U
Sultan Ahmed Mosque	Turkey	Istanbul	1609-1616	U	National mosque
Suleymaniye Mosque	Turkey	Istanbul	1550-1557	U
Selimiye Mosque	Turkey	Edirne	1568-1574	U
Sheikh Zayed Mosque	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi City	2000	A	National mosque
Grand Mosque of Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Dubai City	1998	A
Mosque Tucson	United States	Tucson (Arizona)	?	U
Tucson Islamic Center, University of Arizona	United States	Tucson (Arizona)	?	U
Mosque Maryam	United States	Chicago (Illinois)	?	NoI	Originally a Greek Orthodox church, purchased in 1972 by the Nation of Islam.
Al-Sadiq Mosque	United States	Chicago (Illinois)	1922	AMJ
Islamic Center of America	United States	Dearborn (Michigan)	2005	U
Islamic Center of Washington	United States	Washington	1957	U
Mosque of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim	Venezuela	Caracas	1993	U	Spanish Wiki: Mezquita Ibrahim Al-lbrahim