List of largest mosques

This is a list of mosques that accommodate at least 5,000 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

NameImagesCapacity
(worshipers)
Area (m2)CityAdministrative Region CountryYear of first building
Masjid al-Haram map
4,000,000[1]H400,000[1]MeccaMakkah Province Saudi Arabia Saudi ArabiaPre 622
Al-Masjid al-Nabawi map
1,000,000I400,000MedinaAl Madinah Province Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabiabetween 634 and 644
Grand Jamia Mosque,Karachi
800,000 Karachi Sindh Province
Pakistan
Under Construction
Moscow Cathedral Mosque
10,000MoscowMoscow Russia Russia1904 (rebuilt 2015)
Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque
10,000[2]GroznyChechen Republic Russia Russia2008
Aymani Kadyrov Mosque
5,000[3]ArgunChechen Republic Russia Russia2014
Imam Ali Mosque
800,000300,500NajafNajaf GovernorateIraqIraq900
Al-Azhar Mosque
20,0007,800CairoEgypt Egypt Egypt972
Al Fateh Mosque map
7,000ManamaCapital Governorate Bahrain Bahrain1987
Imam Husayn Shrine and Al Abbas Mosque
1,000,000390,550KarbalaKarbala GovernorateIraqIraq680
Badshahi Mosque map
100,000E29,867.2ELahorePunjab Pakistan Pakistan1673
Grand Jamia Mosque
95,000 9,236Lahore PunjabPakistan Pakistan2014
Bara Imambara
350,000350,000LucknowUttar PradeshIndiaIndia1784
Masjid-e-Aqsa map
18,500E3,700ERabwah PunjabPakistan Pakistan1972
Baitul Futuh map
10,000E21,000EMordenLondon United Kingdom United Kingdom 2003
Baitul Falah
5,000ChittagongChittagong DivisionBangladesh Bangladesh
Baitul Mukarram map
40,000DhakaDhaka Division Bangladesh Bangladesh1960
Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque
500,000200,500IsfahanIsfahan ProvinceIranIran1618
Central Mosque, Almaty
7,0009,500AlmatyAlmaty Kazakhstan Kazakhstan1890
Conakry Grand Mosque
12,500 Conakry Conakry Region Guinea Guinea 1982
East London Mosque
7,500 London England United Kingdom United Kingdom 1910
Emir Abdelkader Mosque
15,000ConstantineConstantine Province Algeria Algeria1994
Jamkaran Mosque
800,000305,500QomQom ProvinceIranIran984
Faisal Mosque map
200,000[4]5,000DIslamabadIslamabad Capital Territory Pakistan Pakistan1986
Gaddafi National Mosque
12,200 48,562.3Kampala Central Region Uganda Uganda 1972
Grand Mosque
13,000Kuwait CityAl Asimah Kuwait Kuwait1986
Mahmood Mosque map
5,000Kababir, HaifaIsrael Israel Israel1970
Grand Mosque of Évry
5,000CourcouronnesGreater Paris France France1994
Great Mosque of Surabaya 59,000[5]18,800 (building)SurabayaEast JavaIndonesia Indonesia2000
Hassan II Mosque
105,000[6]C90,000CCasablancaGreater Casablanca Morocco Morocco1993
Id Kah Mosque map
20,000[7]KashgarXinjiang China People's Republic of China1442
Imam Reza Shrine map
500,000[8]A598,657[9]AMashhadRazavi Khorasan Province Iran Iran818
Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta map
200,000B95,000JakartaJakarta Province Indonesia Indonesia1978
Chota Imambara
100,000150,000LucknowUttar PradeshIndiaIndia1784
Jama Masjid map
25,000G145,000Old DelhiNational Capital Territory of Delhi India India1656
Makhachkala Grand Mosque
17,000[10]MakhachkalaRepublic of Dagestan Russia Russia1998
Masjid e Tooba
5,000KarachiSindh Pakistan Pakistan1969
Mecca Masjid
20,000HyderabadTelangana India India1694
National Mosque of Malaysia map
15,000Kuala LumpurFederal Territory Malaysia Malaysia1965
Nizhny Novgorod Cathedral Mosque
5,000Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod oblast Russia Russia1915
Mosque of Rome
12,00030,000RomeLazio Italy Italy1995
Saint Petersburg Mosque
5,000Saint PetersburgSaint Petersburg Russia Russia1913
Salavat Yulaev Mosque 5,000UfaBashkortosan Russia Russia2017
Saleh Mosque
44,000[11]27,300Sana'aSana'aYemen Yemen2008
Sabancı Mosque
28,000AdanaAdana Province Turkey Turkey1998
Shah Mosque
700,000400,500IsfahanIsfahan ProvinceIranIran1611
Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque
30,000[12] DohaDoha Qatar Qatar2010
Sheikh Zayed Mosque map
40,000 F 22,000[13]Abu DhabiEmirate of Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates2007
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque
24,000Shah AlamSelangor Malaysia Malaysia1988
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (also known as Blue Mosque)
10,000IstanbulMarmara Region Turkey Turkey1616
Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah60,000Cotabato CityAutonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao Philippines Philippines2011
Masjid Al-Dahab
10,000ManilaNational Capital Region Philippines Philippines1976
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque map
20,000416,000MuscatMuscat Governorate Oman Oman2001
Taj-ul-Masajid map
175,00090,000BhopalSultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal India India1901
Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque
10,00018,000GypjakTurkmenistan Turkmenistan Turkmenistan2004
Umayyad Mosque map
20,000DamascusDamascus Governorate Syria Syria705
Jamia Masjid, Srinagar
33,000[14] Jammu and KashmirKashmir India India1400
Juma Masjid Mosque
6,000[15] DurbanKwazulu-Natal South Africa South Africa1881
Nizamiye Masjid 6,000[16] MidrandJohannesburg South Africa South Africa2009

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.
  • ^H Accommodates more than 1,000,000 during peak times
  • ^I Plans announced in 2012 for expansion to accommodate two million worshippers by 2040.[17]

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See also

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References

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  13. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque – Abu Dhabi
  14. Jamia Masjid, Srinagar
  15. Juma Masjid Mosque
  16. Nizamiye Masjid
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  18. NS Country Classification
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