{"id":14204,"date":"2018-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/12-unusual-mosques-around-world\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T11:51:50","slug":"12-unusual-mosques-around-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/12-unusual-mosques-around-world\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Unusual Mosques Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While there are strict requirements in Islam for a building to be classified as a mosque, people throughout civilizations have found numerous creative ways to meet them, and simultaneously turn the places of worship into incredible works of art. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most mosques around the world look practically the same, featuring domes or minarets\u2014some more elaborate than others. Architectural styles depend on the region, but sometimes creativity takes a full turn\u2014making for some of the world\u2019s most exquisite, and unique, architectural gems. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Indonesia to Mali, we rounded up some of the world\u2019s most unusual mosques<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Nusrat Djahan Mosque, Denmark<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nusrat-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Great Mosque Of Djenn\u00e9, Mali<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/djenne-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Niujie Mosque, China<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/niujie-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque, Sri Lanka<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Jami-Ul-Alfar_Mosque_Pettah-1024x569-300x167-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Fatima Mosque, Kuwait<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/fatima-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"496\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Lala Tulpan Mosque, Russia<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/lala-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Nasser Mosque, Kuwait<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nasser-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Sancaklar Underground Mosque, Turkey<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sancaklar-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Safina Mosque, Pakistan<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/safina-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"411\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Grand Mosque West Sumatra, Indonesia<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/west-sumatra-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Education City Mosque, Qatar<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/education-city-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Cage Mosque, Saudi Arabia<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cage-mosque-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"Unusual Mosques\" width=\"601\" height=\"517\" \/><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there are strict requirements in Islam for a building to be classified as a mosque, people throughout civilizations have found numerous creative ways to meet them, and simultaneously turn the places of worship into incredible works of art. Most mosques around the world look practically the same, featuring domes or minarets\u2014some more elaborate than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":14230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4366],"tags":[4196,5850,6023,4513,4710,6024],"primary_tag":[4363],"ppma_author":[4720],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":4720,"user_id":19,"is_guest":0,"slug":"olfaf","display_name":"Olfa Farhat","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28edbc5427e847ff89d596a6517caa9f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14229,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14204\/revisions\/14229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=14204"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=14204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}