Islam

Aghtsk Royal Mausoleum

Aghtsk, Aragatsotn, Armenia

Aghtsk Royal Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Aghtsk, Aragatsotn, Armenia, connected with Islam....

Aisha Bibi Mausoleum

Aisha Bibi, Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan

Aisha Bibi Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Aisha Bibi, Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Islam....

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...

Aladža Mosque, Foča

Foča, Foča, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Aladža Mosque, Foča is a documented mosque in Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina, held within Islam....

Alasha Khan Mausoleum

Malshybai, Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan

Alasha Khan Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Malshybai, Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Islam....

Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín

Granada, Granada, 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....

Alinjachay Khanagah Complex

Khanagah, Julfa District; Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan

Alinjachay Khanagah Complex is a documented sacred site in Khanagah, Julfa District; Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan, connected with Islam....

Altun-Alem Mosque

Novi Pazar, Novi Pazar, Raška District, Serbia

Altun-Alem Mosque is a documented mosque in Novi Pazar, Serbia, held within Islam....

Arab-Ata Mausoleum

Tim, Navoiy Region, Uzbekistan

Arab-Ata Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Tim, Navoiy Region, Uzbekistan, connected with Islam....

Arystan Bab Mausoleum

Shaulder, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan

Arystan Bab Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Shaulder, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Islam....

Ashab-i Kehf, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

Julfa, 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...

Askhab Mausoleums

Ancient Merv / Bayramaly, Mary Region, Turkmenistan

Askhab Mausoleums is a documented sacred site in Ancient Merv / Bayramaly, Mary Region, Turkmenistan, connected with Islam....

Astana Baba Mausoleum Complex

Astana Baba, Lebap Region, Turkmenistan

Astana Baba Mausoleum Complex is a documented sacred site in Astana Baba, Lebap Region, Turkmenistan, connected with Islam....

Ayri-Baba Sacred Mountain

Koytendag, Lebap Region, Turkmenistan

Ayri-Baba Sacred Mountain is a documented sacred natural site in Koytendag, Lebap Region, Turkmenistan, connected with Islam....

Bahauddin Naqshband Memorial Complex

Bukhara, Bukhara, 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....

Baidibek Ata Mausoleum

Baidibek District, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan

Baidibek Ata Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Baidibek District, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Islam....

Batumi Mosque

Batumi, Adjara, Georgia

Batumi Mosque is a documented mosque in Batumi, Adjara, Georgia, connected with Islam....

Bayazid Bostami

Bayejid Bostami, Chattogram, 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...

Beket Ata Underground Mosque

Oglandy, Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan

Beket Ata Underground Mosque is a documented mosque in Oglandy, Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Islam....

Bektashi Sufi Tekke monastery, Blagaj

Dračevice, Herzegovina-Neretva, 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

Siyazan, 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...

Bibi-Heybat Mosque

Bibi-Heybat, Baku, Azerbaijan

Bibi-Heybat Mosque is a documented mosque in Bibi-Heybat, Baku, Azerbaijan, connected with Islam....

Bibi-Khanym Mosque

Samarkand, Samarqand Region, Uzbekistan

Bibi-Khanym Mosque is a documented mosque in Samarkand, Samarqand Region, Uzbekistan, connected with Islam....

Blue Mosque, Yerevan

Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia

Blue Mosque, Yerevan is a documented mosque in Yerevan, Armenia, connected with Islam....

Burana Tower

Burana, Chuy, 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....

Chashma-Ayub Mausoleum

Bukhara, Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan

Chashma-Ayub Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Bukhara, Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan, connected with Islam....

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....

Deggaron Mosque

Hazara, Navoiy Region, Uzbekistan

Deggaron Mosque is a documented mosque in Hazara, Navoiy Region, Uzbekistan, connected with Islam....

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, Gobustan, 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....

Domalak Ana Mausoleum

Balabogen, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan

Domalak Ana Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Balabogen, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Islam....

Dome of the Rock

Part of Temple Mount

Jerusalem District, Israel

Completed in 691/692 CE, the Dome of the Rock is one of the oldest surviving works of Islamic architecture....

Dungan Mosque of Karakol

Karakol, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan

Dungan Mosque of Karakol is a documented mosque in Karakol, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan, connected with Islam....

East London Mosque

London, England, United Kingdom

East London Mosque belongs among the significant multi-faith places of England. The sacred frame at East London Mosque comes from Islam....

Edinburgh Central Mosque

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh Central Mosque is a nationally or regionally important multi-faith place in Scotland. Edinburgh Central Mosque is interpreted here through Islam....

Emperor's Mosque, Sarajevo

Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The oldest mosque in Sarajevo, founded in 1457, stands as the spiritual nucleus from which the city itself grew....

Ferhat Pasha Mosque, Banja Luka

Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ferhat Pasha Mosque, Banja Luka is a documented mosque in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, held within Islam....

Garabaghlar Mausoleum Complex

Garabaghlar, Kangarli District; Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan

Garabaghlar Mausoleum Complex is a documented sacred site in Garabaghlar, Kangarli District; Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan, connected with Islam....

Gauhar Ana Mausoleum

Turkestan, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan

Gauhar Ana Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Turkestan, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan, connected with Islam....

Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque

Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 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....

Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum

Samarkand, Samarqand Region, Uzbekistan

Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum is a documented sacred site in Samarkand, Samarqand Region, Uzbekistan, connected with Islam....

Hala Sultan Tekki

Dromolaxia - Meneou Municipality, Larnaca, 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...

Hazrati Imam Complex

Tashkent, Tashkent City, Uzbekistan

Hazrati Imam Complex is a documented sacred site in Tashkent, Tashkent City, Uzbekistan, connected with Islam....