List of tallest mosques

A list of the 25 tallest mosques in the world. The height value gives the height of the tallest element of the mosque (usually a minaret).

List

Name Country City Height m (ft) Year of completion Remarks
1 Djamaa el Djazaïr  Algeria Algiers 265 m (869 ft) 2019
2 Hassan II Mosque[1]  Morocco Casablanca 210 m (690 ft) 1993
3 Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque[2]  Malaysia Shah Alam 142.3 m (467 ft) 1988 106.7 m (350 ft) high dome
4 Great Mosque of Mecca[3]  Saudi Arabia Mecca 139 m (456 ft) 1570
5 Grand Mosalla mosque of Tehran[4]  Iran Tehran 136 m (446 ft) 2006 Unfinished as of 2019
6 Al Fateh Grand Mosque  Bahrain Manama 130.1 m (427 ft) 1988
7 Putra Mosque[5]  Malaysia Putrajaya 116 m (381 ft) 1999
8 Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque[6]  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 115 m (377 ft) 2008
9 Mosque of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim[7]  Venezuela Caracas 113 m (371 ft) 1989
10 Al-Masjid an-Nabawi  Saudi Arabia Medina 112 m (367 ft) 1994
11 Al-Nour Mosque[8]  Egypt Cairo 111.9 m (367 ft)
12 Grand Mosalla mosque of Isfahan[9]  Iran Isfahan 110 m (360 ft) 2010
13 Çamlıca Republic Mosque[10]  Turkey Istanbul 107.1 m (351 ft) 2016
14 The Grand Mosque[11]  United Arab Emirates Dubai 107 m (351 ft) 2007
15 Sabancı Merkez Mosque[12]  Turkey Adana 99 m (325 ft) 1998
16 Jameh Mosque of Makki[13]  Iran Zahedan 92 m (302 ft) 2010
17 Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque[14]  Oman Muscat 91.3 m (300 ft) 2001
18 Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini[15]  Iran Tehran 91 m (299 ft) 1992
19 Faisal Mosque[16]  Pakistan Islamabad 90 m (300 ft) 1987
20 Kocatepe Mosque[17]  Turkey Ankara 88 m (289 ft) 1987
21 Abdülhamid Han Mosque  Turkey Kahramanmaras 88 m (289 ft)
22 Maltepe Merkez Mosque  Turkey Istanbul 87 m (285 ft)
23 Mosque of Muhammad Ali[18]  Egypt Cairo 84.1 m (276 ft) 1848
24 Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan[19]  Egypt Cairo 84 m (276 ft) 1364
25 Selimiye Mosque  Turkey Edirne 83 m (272 ft) 1574

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Masjid Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah | Petaling Jaya & Shah Alam, Malaysia Petaling Jaya & Shah Alam". www.lonelyplanet.com. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  3. ^ "Grand Mosque / Holy Mosque in Makkah". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  4. ^ Contenta, Sandro (15 May 2001). "Grandiose Mosque Project Touted as World's Largest". The Toronto Star.
  5. ^ Kassim, Shireen Jahn; Nawawi, Norwina Mohd; Ibrahim, Mansor (2018). Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form: The Dynamics and Dialectics of National Identity vs Regionalism in a Tropical City. Kuala Lumpur: Springer. p. 43. ISBN 9783319661315.
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  7. ^ "Mosque of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim in Caracas - Venezuela". www.beautifulmosque.com. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  8. ^ "Al-Nour Mosque - Cairo - | Arab Contractors". www.arabcont.com. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  9. ^ "Grand Mosalla mosque of Isfahan". Iran Metropolis news agency. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  10. ^ Lee, Jack (2017-05-07). "What are they doing to Istanbul?". Turkey File. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  11. ^ "Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: 10 Great Reasons To Visit". Planet Janet Travels. 2017-01-29. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  12. ^ "Sabancı Central Mosque". Sabancı Vakfı. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  13. ^ "Tourism in Sistan and Baluchistan". Taadol. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  14. ^ "Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque: Arabia Felix". www.oman.de. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  15. ^ "Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini". ISNA. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  16. ^ Naz, Neelum (2005). "Contribution of Turkish architects to the National Architecture of Pakistan: Vedat Dalokay". Middle East Technical University Journal of the Faculty of Architecture. 22 (2): 63.
  17. ^ "Kocatepe Mosque - Ankara City Center ｜Expedia.co.in". Expedia.co.in. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  18. ^ "Mohamed Ali Mosque". egypt.travel. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  19. ^ "The Mosque and Madrasa of Sultan Hassan". www.touregypt.net. Retrieved 2019-01-12.


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