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The mosque houses a Musallah, or main prayer hall, a kitchen, a library and two offices. Tile imported from Sri Lanka adorns the mosque’s mihrab, a small, curved niche signaling Mecca’s direction.

Across the globe, the oldest mosques stand as silent guardians of Islamic history. These venerable structures are not just sacred spaces for prayer; they are historical archives that have borne ...

The mosque spans nearly 70 acres. Decorated with wood and marble, it features “Arab and North African flourishes,” as Al Jazeera writes.

Algeria has built one of the largest mosques the world has ever seen. It can accommodate a staggering 120,000 people inside and its minaret is nearly twice the height of the Pyramid of Giza.

With space for 35,000 worshippers in its large prayer hall and 120,000 visitors in total, it will now be the largest mosque in Africa (a title once occupied by the Hassan II Mosque in Morocco) and ...

The mosque is the third largest in the world, after the Islamic holy sites in Mecca and Madinah, and the largest on the African continent. It has the world’s largest minaret, or prayer tower, standing ...