Buildings of Islam, such as the white marble mausoleum of the Taj Mahal, the octagonal shrine of the Dome of the Rock and the great mud brick mosque of Djenné in Mali. A building belongs here when the cited article calls it a mosque, a mausoleum or an Islamic shrine. It excludes churches and the temples of Asia. The group follows the role the cited article names for the building. The three differ greatly in scale and region, from the marble of the Mughal court to the mud brick of the Sahel, but each is a major place of worship, burial or pilgrimage for Muslims, and the group follows the role the cited article gives the building.
All Mosques, Shrines and Mausolea of Islam
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Taj Mahal (Wikipedia)
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The Taj Mahal ( TAHJ mə-HAHL, TAHZH -; Hindustani: [t̪ɑːd͡ʒ ˈmɛɦ(ɛ)l]; lit. 'Crown of the Palace') is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dome of the Rock (Wikipedia)
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The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized: Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḫra) is an octagonal Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Great Mosque of Djenné (Wikipedia)
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The Great Mosque of Djenné in the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style is the largest adobe brick building in the world.
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Wikipedia)
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The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii), popularly known as the Blue Mosque, is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey.
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