List of largest mosques

This is a list of mosques that accommodate at least 5,000,000 worshipers per year. The default listing is alphabetical; to sort using different criteria, click on the desired column headers. Note that determining exactly what should be included when calculating area is a highly subjective assessment, and the figures given here adhere to no common standard.

List of large mosques

Name	Capacity (worshipers)	Area m²	City	Administrative Region	Country	Year of first building
Masjid al-Haram^map	7006400000000000000♠4,000,000[a]	7006400802000000000♠4,008,020 [a]	Mecca	Makkah Province	Saudi Arabia	0634 !between 634 and 644
Al-Masjid al-Nabawi^map	7006100000000000000♠1,000,000	7005400500000000000♠400,500	Medina	Al Madinah Province	Saudi Arabia	0622 !Pre 622
Moscow Cathedral Mosque	7004100000000000000♠10,000		Moscow	Moscow	Russia	1904 (rebuilt 2015)
Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque	7004100000000000000♠10,000^[1]		Grozny	Chechen Republic	Russia	2008
Aymani Kadyrov Mosque	7003500000000000000♠5,000^[2]		Argun	Chechen Republic	Russia	2014
Imam Ali Mosque	7005800000000000000♠800,000	7005300500000000000♠300,500	Najaf	Najaf Governorate	Iraq	0900 !900
Al-Azhar Mosque	7004200000000000000♠20,000	7003780000000000000♠7,800	Cairo	Egypt	Egypt	0972 !972
Al Fateh Mosque^map	7003700000000000000♠7,000		Manama	Capital Governorate	Bahrain	1987
Imam Husayn Shrine and Al Abbas Mosque	7006100000000000000♠1,000,000	7005390550000000000♠390,550	Karbala	Karbala Governorate	Iraq	0680 !680
Badshahi Mosque^map	7005100000000000000♠100,000^E	7004298672000000000♠29,867.2^E	Lahore	Punjab	Pakistan	1673
Grand Jamia Mosque	7004950000000000000♠95,000	7003923600000000000♠9,236	Lahore	Punjab	Pakistan	2014
Bara Imambara	7005350000000000000♠350,000	7005350000000000000♠350,000	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	India	1784
Masjid-e-Aqsa^map	7004185000000000000♠18,500^E	7003370000000000000♠3,700^E	Rabwah	Punjab	Pakistan	1972
Baitul Futuh^map	7004100000000000000♠10,000^E	7004210000000000000♠21,000^E	Morden	London	United Kingdom	2003
Baitul Falah	7003500000000000000♠5,000		Chittagong	Chittagong Division	Bangladesh
Baitul Mukarram^map	7004400000000000000♠40,000		Dhaka	Dhaka Division	Bangladesh	1960
Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque	7005500000000000000♠500,000	7005200500000000000♠200,500	Isfahan	Isfahan Province	Iran	1618
Central Mosque, Almaty	7003700000000000000♠7,000	7003950000000000000♠9,500	Almaty	Almaty	Kazakhstan	1890
Conakry Grand Mosque	7004125000000000000♠12,500		Conakry	Conakry Region	Guinea	1982
East London Mosque	7003750000000000000♠7,500		London	England	United Kingdom	1910
Emir Abdelkader Mosque	7004150000000000000♠15,000		Constantine	Constantine Province	Algeria	1994
Jamkaran Mosque	7005800000000000000♠800,000	7005305500000000000♠305,500	Qom	Qom Province	Iran	0984 !984
Faisal Mosque^map	7005200000000000000♠200,000^[3]	7003500000000000000♠5,000^D	Islamabad	Islamabad Capital Territory	Pakistan	1986
Gaddafi National Mosque	7004122000000000000♠12,200	7004485623000000000♠48,562.3	Kampala	Central Region	Uganda	1972
Grand Mosque	7004130000000000000♠13,000		Kuwait City	Al Asimah	Kuwait	1986
Mahmood Mosque^map	7003500000000000000♠5,000		Kababir, Haifa	Israel	Israel	1970
Grand Mosque of Évry	7003500000000000000♠5,000		Courcouronnes	Greater Paris	France	1994
Great Mosque of Surabaya	7004590000000000000♠59,000^[4]	7004188000000000000♠18,800 (building)	Surabaya	East Java	Indonesia	2000
Hassan II Mosque	7005105000000000000♠105,000^[5]^C	7004900000000000000♠90,000^C	Casablanca	Greater Casablanca	Morocco	1993
Id Kah Mosque^map	7004200000000000000♠20,000^[6]		Kashgar	Xinjiang	People's Republic of China	1442
Imam Reza Shrine^map	7005500000000000000♠500,000^[7]^A	7005598657000000000♠598,657^[8]^A	Mashhad	Razavi Khorasan Province	Iran	0818 !818
Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta^map	7005200000000000000♠200,000^B	7004950000000000000♠95,000	Jakarta	Jakarta Province	Indonesia	1978
Chota Imambara	7005100000000000000♠100,000	7005150000000000000♠150,000	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	India	1784
Jama Masjid^map	7004850000000000000♠85,000^G	7004450000000000000♠45,000	Old Delhi	National Capital Territory of Delhi	India	1656
Makhachkala Grand Mosque	7004170000000000000♠17,000^[9]		Makhachkala	Republic of Dagestan	Russia	1998
Masjid e Tooba	7003500000000000000♠5,000		Karachi	Sindh	Pakistan	1969
Mecca Masjid	7004200000000000000♠20,000		Hyderabad	Telangana	India	1694
National Mosque of Malaysia^map	7004150000000000000♠15,000		Kuala Lumpur	Federal Territory	Malaysia	1965
Nizhny Novgorod Cathedral Mosque	7003500000000000000♠5,000		Nizhny Novgorod	Nizhny Novgorod oblast	Russia	1915
Mosque of Rome	7004120000000000000♠12,000	7004300000000000000♠30,000	Rome	Lazio	Italy	1995
Saint Petersburg Mosque	7003500000000000000♠5,000		Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Russia	1913
Salavat Yulaev Mosque	7003500000000000000♠5,000		Ufa	Bashkortosan	Russia	2017
Saleh Mosque	7004440000000000000♠44,000^[10]	7004273000000000000♠27,300	Sana'a	Sana'a	Yemen	2008
Sabancı Mosque	7004280000000000000♠28,000		Adana	Adana Province	Turkey	1998
Shah Mosque	7005700000000000000♠700,000	7005400500000000000♠400,500	Isfahan	Isfahan Province	Iran	1611
Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab Mosque	7004300000000000000♠30,000^[11]		Doha	Doha	Qatar	2010
Sheikh Zayed Mosque^map	7004400000000000000♠40,000 ^F	7004220000000000000♠22,000^[12]	Abu Dhabi	Emirate of Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	2007
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque	7004240000000000000♠24,000		Shah Alam	Selangor	Malaysia	1988
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (also known as Blue Mosque)	7004100000000000000♠10,000		Istanbul	Marmara Region	Turkey	1616
Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah	7004600000000000000♠60,000		Cotabato City	Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao	Philippines	2011
Masjid Al-Dahab	7004100000000000000♠10,000		Manila	National Capital Region	Philippines	1976
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque^map	7004200000000000000♠20,000	7005416000000000000♠416,000	Muscat	Muscat Governorate	Oman	2001
Taj-ul-Masajid^map	7005175000000000000♠175,000	7004900000000000000♠90,000	Bhopal	Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal	India	1901
Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque	7004100000000000000♠10,000	7004180000000000000♠18,000	Gypjak	Turkmenistan	Turkmenistan	2004
Umayyad Mosque^map	7004200000000000000♠20,000		Damascus	Damascus Governorate	Syria	0705 !705
Jamia Masjid, Srinagar	7004330000000000000♠33,000^[13]		Jammu and kashmir	Kashmir	India	1400
Juma Masjid Mosque	7003600000000000000♠6,000^[14]		Durban	Kwazulu-Natal	South Africa	1881
Nizamiye Masjid	7003600000000000000♠6,000^[15]		Midrand	Johannesburg	South Africa	2009
Faizan-e-Madinah	20,000	10,000	Karachi	Karachi	Pakistan	1999

Footnotes

^A Capacity of one courtyard: 100,000; Total number courtyards: 7; Total shrine area: 267,079 m²; Total courtyard area: 331,578 m² (world's largest)
^B Capacity, main building: 61,000; secondary building: 8,000; bridge building: ~1,000; Terrace: 50,000;
^C Capacity, inside: 25,000; outside: 80,000. Covered Area: 20,000 m²
^D Capacity, hall: 10,000; porticoes: 24,000; courtyard; 40,000. Covered Area: 5,000 m²
^E Capacity, hall: 5,000; courtyard and porticoes: 95,000. Courtyard area: 278,784 m²
^F Capacity, main prayer hall: 9,000; 2 halls for women: 2 * 1,500; porticoes: 18,000.
^G Capacity, hall: 10,000; courtyard: 75,000.

Mapping

^ Masjid al-Haram, 21°25′19″N 039°49′33″E / 21.42194°N 39.82583°E / 21.42194; 39.82583 (Masjid al-Haram)

^ Al-Masjid al-Nabawi, 24°28′06″N 039°36′39″E / 24.46833°N 39.61083°E

^ Imām Ridhā Mosque, 36°17′16″N 59°36′56″E / 36.28778°N 59.61556°E

^ Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta, 06°10′11″S 106°49′51″E / 6.16972°S 106.83083°E

^ Hassan II Mosque, 33°36′26.4″N 7°37′57″W / 33.607333°N 7.63250°W

^ Faisal Mosque, 33°43′47″N 073°02′18″E / 33.72972°N 73.03833°E

^ Badshahi Mosque, 31°35′18″N 074°18′49″E / 31.58833°N 74.31361°E

^ Sheikh Zayed Mosque, 24°24′44″N 054°28′28″E / 24.41222°N 54.47444°E

^ Jama Masjid, 28°39′03″N 077°13′59″E / 28.65083°N 77.23306°E

^ Baitul Mukarram, 23°43′46″N 090°24′44″E / 23.72944°N 90.41222°E

^ Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, 23°35′02″N 58°23′21″E / 23.58389°N 58.38917°E

^ Id Kah Mosque, 39°28′20″N 075°59′05″E / 39.47222°N 75.98472°E

^ Masjid Negara, 03°08′31″N 101°41′29″E / 3.14194°N 101.69139°E

^ Sultan Ahmed Mosqu, 41°00′19″N 028°58′36″E / 41.00528°N 28.97667°E

^ Al Fateh Mosque, 26°13′08″N 050°35′53″E / 26.21889°N 50.59806°E

^ Al-Aqsa Mosque, 31°46′35″N 035°14′08″E / 31.77639°N 35.23556°E^[16]

^ Baitul Futuh, 51°23′46″N 0°11′56″W / 51.39611°N 0.19889°W

^ Masjid-e-Aqsa, 31°45′6″N 72°54′38″E / 31.75167°N 72.91056°E

^ Mahmood Mosque,32°47′17.8″N 34°58′11.7″E / 32.788278°N 34.969917°E

References

↑ Russia's Chechnya inaugurates vast new mosque, 17.10.2008, reuters.com, read 16.1.2015
↑ Мечеть имени Аймани Кадыровой в Аргуне откроют 9 мая
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↑ Jackie Craven. "Sacred Buildings". About.com Home. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
↑ Peter Neville-Hadley. Frommer's China. Frommer's, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7645-6755-1. Page 302.
↑ "Sahn(Courtyards) Around the Holy Shrine". Imam Reza (A.S.) Network. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
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↑ Makhachkala organizes charity iftars, islamdag.info, 23.8.2011, read 12.1.2014
↑ "Al-Saleh Mosque in Yemen". Islamic Arts and Architecture. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
↑ "State Mosque to be named after Imam Abdul Wahhab". Gulf-Times. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
↑ Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque – Abu Dhabi
↑ Jamia Masjid, Srinagar
↑ Juma Masjid Mosque
↑ Nizamiye Masjid
↑ NS Country Classification

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