Muhammad built a mosque to set up a place for prayer. He used the mosque as the seat of government and as an army training centre. He used the mosque as a community centre and as a school. He also resided inside the mosque of Madinah.
To construct and decorate the mosque, Walid employed the best craftsmen from Constantinople (now Istanbul) and from the Umayyad Empire.
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It was originally a Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter.
In Damascus there is a famous mosque which holds great prestige: the Jame'a Bani Umayya al-Kabir or the Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. Damascus was also the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate.
The first mosque built in Lahore is the Pearl Mosque and was built between 1630-35. it is referred to as the 'Moti Masjid'.
The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore was built by Aurangzeb and not Akbar. Completed in 1673, Badshahi Mosque is the second largest mosque in Pakistan.
Aurangzeb built the Pearl Mosque. Totally by Public's shaRes....
which prophet built the mosque 'al aaqsa'?
Jahangiri mosque was built by the great ruler Jahangir.
The Mausoleum of Saladin is in Damascus, Syria in garden next to the Umayyad Mosque.
The Badshahi Mosque was built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore, Pakistan
The construction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, also known as Bayt al-Muqaddas in Arabic, was initiated by the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in the 7th century. The mosque compound underwent several phases of construction and expansion by subsequent Islamic rulers.