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The Iske-Tash Mosque was built in 1802, supposedly on the site of the mass grave of the soldiers who defended Kazan against the troops of Ivan the Terrible in 1552. In 1830, the mosque was rebuilt in the Classicist style. Closed in the 1930s, the mosque was used as a school and then as a warehouse during the Soviet period. In 1994, the mosque was returned to the believers.

Islam-aga's Mosque is the only active Mosque in Niš. It has a rectangular plan and a flat wooden ceiling. It is protected as a cultural monument due to its historic and religious importance in the city.

This mosque was built between 1975 and 1979. It has a 20 meter wide dome and 32 meter tall minaret. Today it is the largest mosque in Austria.

Built in 1992, the Islamic Cultural Center of Madrid is the largest mosque in Spain. The six-storey complex covers 12,000 m2 and contains a library, two exhibition halls, a school, a museum, an auditorium, a gym, houses for the director and Imam, a cafeteria, and a dining hall. The architecture is modeled after the Alhambra.

This cultural center was built in 1974. It is the primary Islamic center for Norway. It contains a library of over 3500 books and holds many community outreach events.

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Stichting Islamic Centrum Arnhem Zuid was founded in 2001 and is therefore the first mosque and the first Islamic centre in the Malburgen. After a long search for a suitable accommodation, the Foundation has been located in the former Oudeschool building at Flutekruidstraat 2 since 1995.

Ismi Khan Jami Mosque is a ruined mosque, probably built in the 16th and 18th centuries with donations from Ismikhan, the niece of one of the Crimean Khans. In the 1930s, the mosque was closed to worshippers, after which the building was turned into a warehouse until it fell into ruin.

The new Turkish mosque has been completed and partly put into use. The first pile was driven in the spring of 2001 and that was it for a while because the necessary funds were not available. Only the dome of the prayer room on the first floor still needs to be finished. The relocation of the old mosque Achter de Muren Zandpoort took place last summer. The opening ceremony took place on October 4, 2003. In the dome hangs a four-hundred-kilo palace crown with 72 lights in crystal icicles. (47-02/50-03/51-04)

According to T. Bağişkan there were two mosques in the village. The old one was in a ruinous state in 1934 and was replaced by a new mosque on an adjacent plot. The keystone of this mosque, which was built by a Greek Cypriot tender, was laid in 1935.