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Islam
Islamic sacred sites include mosques, Sufi shrines, sacred cities, tombs, learning centers, and pilgrimage landscapes shaped by prayer, memory, and community.
73 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country and site-type filters to narrow in.
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Islam sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
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| UNESCO heritage | 7 UNESCO-tagged Islam sites appear in this browse view. |
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Showing 1-48 of 73 sites in this tradition guide
Ak Ishan
Baharden, Ahal, Turkmenistan
In the hills west of Ashgabat, pilgrims have journeyed for over a century to the tomb of Ak Ishan, a Sufi saint who memorized the Quran by age twelve and served as advisor...
Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín
Granada, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
The Alhambra and Generalife were built by the Nasrid dynasty as an earthly rendering of jannah — water, geometry, and calligraphy composed as devotional architecture....
Ashab-i Kehf, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan
Twelve kilometres east of Nakhchivan City, a natural cave is identified as the setting of one of the Quran's most haunting narratives — the story of the Sleepers, youths...
Bahauddin Naqshband Memorial Complex
Bukhara, Bukhara Province, Uzbekistan
In a village outside Bukhara, pilgrims have gathered for six centuries at the tomb of Baha-ud-Din Naqshband, founder of one of the largest Sufi orders in the world....
Bayazid Bostami
Bayejid Bostami, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh
On a hillock above Chittagong, a shrine attributed to the ninth-century Persian mystic Bayazid Bastami draws thousands of daily pilgrims....
Beemapalli Mosque, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
On the coast of Thiruvananthapuram, white domes and minarets mark the dargah of Beema Beevi, a Sufi woman saint revered for her baraka and held by tradition to descend...
Bektashi Sufi Tekke monastery, Blagaj
Dračevice, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Built into a cliff face at the source of the Buna River, the Blagaj Tekke has held continuous prayer for over five centuries....
Besh Marmag Mountain
Azerbaijan
Rising 382 metres from the Caspian coast in Azerbaijan's Siyazan district, Beshbarmag Mountain takes its name from a rock formation that resembles five fingers reaching...
Burana Tower
Burana, Kyrgyzstan
On the Chuy Valley plain east of Bishkek rises the Burana Tower, the eleventh-century minaret of Balasagun, a great Karakhanid Silk Road capital now mostly buried....
Cheraman Juma Masjid, Kodungallur, Kerala
Sringapuram, Kerala, India
On the old Muziris coast at Kodungallur stands a mosque that Malabar Muslim tradition holds to be the first in India, founded in the Prophet's own lifetime....
Dargaah Makhdoom Husain Balkhi, Maner Sharif, Patna, India
Bihar Sharif, Bihar, India
At Maner, west of Patna, lie two dargahs: the Bari Dargah of the thirteenth-century Suhrawardi saint Makhdoom Yahya Maneri, who made the town a centre of Islamic learning,...
Dargah Hazrat Sabir e Pak Piran, Kaliyar Shareef, Uttarakhand
Piran Kaliyar, Uttarakhand, India
On the Upper Ganga Canal near Haridwar lies the dargah of Hazrat Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari, nephew of Baba Farid and founder of the Sabiriya branch of the Chishti order....
Demir Baba Teke, near the village of Sveshtari, Bulgaria
Malak Porovets, Razgrad, Bulgaria
Demir Baba Teke is an Alevi Muslim shrine built in the 16th century over Thracian rock altars dating to the 4th century BC....
Diri Baba Mausoleum, Qobustan Maraza
Gobustan Maraza, Azerbaijan
Rising from a cliff face in Azerbaijan's Gobustan region, the Diri Baba Mausoleum honors a Sufi mystic whose body was believed incorruptible for three centuries....
Dome of the Rock
Jerusalem, Israel
Completed in 691/692 CE, the Dome of the Rock is one of the oldest surviving works of Islamic architecture....
Emperor's Mosque, Sarajevo
Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The oldest mosque in Sarajevo, founded in 1457, stands as the spiritual nucleus from which the city itself grew....
Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque
Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque stands at the spiritual center of Bosnian Islam, its minaret sounding the call to prayer over Sarajevo since 1530....
Great Mosque of Djenné
Djenné, Mopti, Mali
Rising from the floodplain of the Bani River, the Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud-brick building in the world....
Gül Baba Tekke, Budapest, Hungary
Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
On Rózsadomb, Rose Hill, above the Danube stands the octagonal tomb of Gül Baba, a sixteenth-century Bektashi Sufi dervish and poet venerated as a saint....
Hala Sultan Tekki
Dromolaxia - Meneou Municipality, Cyprus, Cyprus
On the western shore of the Larnaca Salt Lake in Cyprus, an Ottoman mosque and mausoleum complex marks the burial place of Umm Haram, a woman from the Prophet Muhammad's...
Imam Ali’s Step Mosque, Basra
Az Zubayr, Al-Basra Governorate, Iraq
In the old quarter west of modern Basra stands one of the very first mosques built in Islam, founded around 635 CE....
Imamzadeh Mausoleum, Ganja
Ganja City, Azerbaijan
In Ganja, Azerbaijan's second largest city, a pilgrimage complex holds the grave of Imamzadeh Ibrahim — son of the fifth Shia Imam, who fled Umayyad persecution in the 8th...
Itchan Kala
Khiva, Xorazm Region, Uzbekistan
Rising from the Khorezm desert, Itchan Kala preserves twenty-five centuries of sacred history within mud-brick walls that have witnessed Zoroastrian fire worship, Silk...
Jam Karan
Qom, Qom Province, Iran
Near Qom, Jamkaran is among the most actively visited Shia mosques in Iran. Tradition holds it was built on the instruction of the Twelfth Imam himself....
Jame' Mosque of Isfahan
Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
In the heart of Isfahan, where the bazaar opens into tranquil courtyard, stands a mosque that has hosted continuous prayer since 771 CE....
Jebel Haroun
Wadi Araba Sub-District, Aqaba, Jordan
Crowning the highest summit in the Petra region, a small whitewashed dome marks the traditional tomb of Aaron, brother of Moses....
Kashan
Kashan, Isfahan Province, Iran
On the desert edge of Kashan, Tepe Sialk is one of Iran's oldest settlements — more than seven millennia of occupation layered into two mounds, with ancient necropolises...
Kataragama Temple, Sri Lanka
Kataragama, Uva Province, Sri Lanka
Kataragama stands as one of the world's rare multi-faith pilgrimage sites, where Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and indigenous Vedda devotees worship side by side....
Koutoubia Mosque
Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, Morocco
The Koutoubia Mosque has anchored Marrakech's spiritual life since the 12th century, its minaret rising above the red walls of the medina as both landmark and call to...
Kutuklu Baba Tekke, Selina, Greece
Συδινή, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
On the western shore of Lake Vistonida in Greek Thrace, a small octagonal stone building holds two living faiths under one dome....
Mahan
Mahan, Kerman Province, Iran
In Mahan, near Kerman, the shrine of Shah Nematollah Vali enfolds the tomb of the 14th-century poet and mystic who founded the Nimatullahi Sufi order....
Malik Ajdar Palwan Tomb
Kaka District, Kaka etraby, Turkmenistan
Rising from the desert near the ancient Bronze Age mound of Ulug Depe, the Melik Ajdar Mausoleum honors a 12th-century wrestler and warrior-hero whose legendary size and...
Mashhad
Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
The Imam Reza Holy Shrine in Mashhad is the spiritual axis of Iranian Twelver Shiʿism — the resting place of the 8th Imam and the largest active mosque complex in the...
Masjid Dastgeer Sahib, Kashmir
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Rising from the heart of Srinagar's Khanyar quarter, Dastgeer Sahib houses a hair relic of Abdul Qadir Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order....
Mausoleum (Zawiya) of Sidi Abdul-Salam Al-Asmar Al-Fituri, Zliten, Libya
Zliten, Bani Walid, Libya
On the Libyan coast at Zliten stands the tomb and zawiya of Sidi Abd al-Salam al-Asmar, founder-figure of the Arusiyya-Shadhili Sufi order....
Mausoleum of 1st Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, Najaf
Al-Najaf Governorate, Iraq
In Najaf rises a golden dome over the burial place of ʿAli ibn Abi Talib — cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet, first Imam of Shiʿism, and the figure most Sufi lineages...
Mausoleum of Abbas (brother of Imam Hussein), Karbala
Karbala, Karbala, Iraq
Across the Bayn al-Haramayn plaza from the Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala stands the gleaming golden tomb of al-Abbas ibn Ali, the flag-bearer and water-bearer who fell on...
Mausoleum of Abd Alqadir Gilani, Baghdad
Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
In the Bab al-Sheikh quarter of Baghdad rests Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, the 12th-century Hanbali scholar and Sufi revered as Ghawth al-Azam, the Greatest Helper....
Mausoleum of Imam al-Hasan of Basra
Az Zubayr, Al-Basra Governorate, Iraq
In the ancient cemetery of Zubayr, near Basra, lies the mausoleum of Hasan al-Basri, one of Islam's most revered spiritual teachers....
Mausoleum of Imam Hussein, Karbala
Karbala, Karbala, Iraq
On the plain of Karbala, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad was killed on the tenth of Muharram in the year 61 of the Hijra....
Mausoleum of Maytham Altammar, Kufa, Najaf
Al Kufa, Al-Najaf Governorate, Iraq
Just west of the Great Mosque of Kufa stands the shrine of Maytham al-Tammar, a freed slave and date merchant who became one of Imam Ali's most loyal companions....
Mausoleum of Sidi Shaykh
El Abiodh Sidi Cheikh, El Bayadh, Algeria
Rising from the Saharan Atlas since the 16th century, the Mausoleum of Sidi Shaykh draws thousands of pilgrims each year to receive baraka from one of Algeria's most...
Mausoleums of 10th Imam Ali Alhadi and 11th Imam Hasan Alaskari, Samarra
Samarra, Saladin Governorate, Iraq
In Samarra rises the al-Askari Shrine, holding the tombs of the tenth and eleventh Twelver Imams and, beside them, the sardab from which the awaited twelfth Imam is...
Mausoleums of 7th Imam Musa Alkadhim and 9th Imam Muhammad Aljawad, Baghdad
Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
In the Kadhimiya district of northern Baghdad, twin golden domes rise over the tombs of two of the Twelve Imams: Musa al-Kadhim, model of patience under persecution, and...
Mausoleums of Muslim bin Aqil, Hani bin Urwa and Almukhtar, Kufa Mosque, Najaf
Al Kufa, Al-Najaf Governorate, Iraq
In the old garrison city of Kufa stands one of the earliest mosques in Islam, and one of the holiest in Shia tradition....
Mecca
Makkah Al Mukarramah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Mecca stands as the holiest city in Islam, the birthplace of Prophet Muhammad, and the site of the Kaaba toward which 1.8 billion Muslims turn in prayer each day....
Merv Oasis
Mary, Mary Region, Turkmenistan
Once the largest city in the world, Merv stands in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert as the most completely preserved of the Silk Road's ancient oases....
Mount Babadağ
Ismailli District, Azerbaijan
Mount Tomorri rises 2,416 metres above southern Albania, visible from Berat and the Osum River valley....
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Islam sacred-site questions
- What are Islam sacred sites?
- Islam sacred sites are places connected by shared lineage, practice, memory, ritual use, or pilgrimage tradition.
- Where can I find Islam sacred sites?
- The strongest country clusters in this guide include Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, India, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria.
- What kinds of places are included?
- Common place types include mausoleum, mosque, shrine, tekke, city, dargah.
- Can I map Islam sacred sites?
- Yes. Compare country clusters and site types first, then open individual pages for coordinates, historical context, and visitor guidance.