A Collection of World Most Beautiful Masjids.

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Goharshad Masjid is a famous Masjid in Razavi Khorasan province of Iran. It was built by the orders of Goharshad, the wife of Shah Rukh of the Timurid Dynasty in 1418 CE and by the architect Ghavameddin Shirazi. The Masjid underwent some renovations during the Safavid and Qajar era. It has 4 iwans and a courtyard measuring 50 X 55 meters, as well as several Shabestans.

Al-Azhar University (al-Azhar al-Shareef, "the Noble Azhar"), is a premier Egyptian institution of higher learning, world-renowned for its position as a center of Islamic scholarship and education. It was built by the Shia Fatimid Dynasty (909-1171) who established Cairo as their capital. It is connected to Al-Azhar mosque in Old Cairo, Al-Azhar ( in Arabic: the most flourished and shining) was so called either because it was surrounded by great glittering places, or as a hopeful disposition, or after the name of Sayeda Fatima Al-Zahra', daughter of the Prophet Mohammed. The mosque was built in two years from 969 AD, the year in which its foundation was laid. The school of theology (Madrasah) connected with it was founded in 988 AD. Studies began in Al-Azhar in Ramadan by October 975 AD, when Chief Justice Abul Hasan Ali ibn Al-No'man started teaching the book "Al-Ikhtisar", on the Shiite Jurisprudence. It became a Sunni school towards the end of the Middle Ages, an orientation it retains to this day. It is the oldest operating universities in the world.

The Emperor's Mosque is an important mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mosque is named after the Sultan Suleiman I.

Hagia Sophia, an Eastern Orthodox church converted into
a Masjid on the day of the Fall of Constantinople. Now it is a museum..

The Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrasa (School) is considered stylistically the most compact and unified of all Cairo monuments. It is one of the masterpieces of Mamluk architecture. The building was commissioned by Sultan Hassan bin Mohammad bin Qala'oun in 1356 AD as a mosque and religious school for all four juristic branches of Sunni Islam. It was designed so that each of the four schools of thought - Shafi, Maliki, Hanafi and Hanbali - has its own area while sharing the mosque.

The Sultan Ahmed Masjid / Blue Masjid in Istanbul, Turkey with its tall,
slender minarets is considered a classic example of Ottoman architecture.

The Masjid Negara is the national Masjid of Malaysia, located in Kuala Lumpur. It has a capacity of 15,000 people and is situated among 13 acres of beautiful gardens. The original structure was designed by a three-person team from the Public Works Department - UK architect Howard Ashley, and Malaysians Hisham Albakri and Baharuddin Kassim. Originally built in 1965, it is a bold and modern approach in reinforced concrete, symbolic of the aspirations of a then newly-independent Malaysia.

The minaret at the Great Masjid of Xi'an, China

The Masjid-i-Jahan Numa, commonly known as Jama Masjid of Delhi is the principal Masjid of Old Delhi in India.
Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is the largest and best known Masjid in India.
(There are also Jama Masjids in many other cities with a history of Islamic rule, or large Muslim populations.)

Masjid-i-Jahan Numa means "the Masjid commanding a view of the world", and the name Jama Masjid is
a reference to the weekly congregation observed on Friday (the yaum al-jum`a) at the Masjid.
The courtyard of the Masjid can hold up to twenty-five thousand worshippers.
The Masjid also houses several relics in a closet in the north gate, including a copy of the Qur'an written
on deer skin incurred on the construction in those times was 10 lakh (1 million) Rupees.

Shah Jahan built several important Masjids in Delhi, Agra, Ajmer and Lahore.
The Jama Masjid's floorplan is very similar to the Moti Masjid at Agra, but the Jama Masjid
is the bigger and more imposing of the two. Its majesty is further enhanced
because of the high ground that he selected for building this Masjid.

Imam Masjid, formerly Shah Masjid along
Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran

Modern designed Masjid in the town of Vogošca,
located in central Bosnia.

The Hassan II Masjid in Casablanca is one of two
Masjids in Morocco open to non-Muslims.

Masjid in Afghanistan

Putra Masjid or Masjid Putra in Malay language, is Putrajaya's principal Masjid. Construction of the Masjid began in 1997 and was completed two years later. It is located next to Perdana Putra which houses the Malaysian Prime Minister's office and man-made Putrajaya Lake. In front of the Masjid is a large square with flagpoles flying Malaysian states' flags.

Zahir Masjid is Kedah's state Masjid. It is located in Alor Setar, the state capital of Kedah, Malaysia.

Glasgow Central Mosque is the largest mosque in Scotland, and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. it was formally opened in 1984 by H E. Abdullah Omar Naseef, the Secretary General of the Muslim World League.

The Muslim population of Scotland number some 50,000 and comprises mainly Arabs, Pakistanis, Turks, African, Malays and Indian Muslims. The mosque also services many foreign students attending Glasgow's prestigious universities and provides a focus for the Muslim community.

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