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A partial list of famous mosques:
- Al-Aqsa, in Jerusalem
- Al-Azhar, in Cairo, the great mosque of Egypt, also the site of Al-Azhar University, the foremost school of Sunni Islam (website)
- Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, now destroyed, and a site of recent violence between Muslims and Hindus
- Dome of the Rock, or Masjid Al Sakhrah in Jerusalem
- Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan
- Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Was a mosque from 1453 until 1934, is now a museum)
- Id Kah mosque in China
- Jama Masjid, Delhi, the Friday Mosque of Delhi.
- Masjid al Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the Great Mosque, holiest in Islam
- Masjid al Nabawi in Medina, Saudi Arabia
- Sultan Ahmed Mosque ("the Blue Mosque") in Istanbul, Turkey
