List of mosques in Yemen

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This is a list of mosques in the Republic of Yemen, in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula.

Name	Images	Location	Year/century	Remarks
Aidrus Mosque		City of Aden	1699	Named for Abu Bakr al-Aydarus, a Sufi mystic. [1]
Al-Asha'ir Mosque		Zabid, Al-Hudaydah	628	One of the early mosques of Islam. Part of UNESCO's World Heritage Site of Zabid. [2]
Al-Muhdhar Mosque		Tarim, Hadhramaut	1914	With a height of approximately 53 m (174 ft), the minaret is the tallest mudbrick structure in the World. [3] [4] [5]
Qubbat az-Zum Mosque		Jiblah, Ibb	1515–1516	One of two prominent mosques in the historical town of Jibla. [6] [7]
Queen Arwa Mosque		Jiblah	1111	Associated with Queen Arwa al-Sulayhi, and is one of the two iconic mosques of Jibla, Yemen. [7]
Al-Hadi Mosque		City of Sa'dah	897
Sufyan Mosque		Lahij	1215	Dedicated to Sufyan ibn Abdullah al-Abini al-Yamani, a Muslim scholar who fought in the 1187 Battle of Hattin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem. [8] [9]
Alansar Mosque		Sanaa	?
Al-Bakiriyya Mosque		Sanaa	1596–1597	Part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Old City of Sana'a. [10]
Abdulhadi as-Soudi Mosque		Taiz	16th century	Named for Abdul Hadi as-Soudi, a prominent poet and Muslim scholar involved in Sufism. Destroyed by Islamists in 2016, and currently still in ruins as of 2020.
Alemaan Mosque		Sanaa	?
Al-Mahdi Mosque		Sanaa	1651	Part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Old City of Sana'a. [10]
Al-Saleh Mosque		Sanaa	2008	The largest mosque in the country. [11] [12]
Al-Shohada' Mosque		Sanaa	?
Al-Towheed Mosque		Sanaa	?
Great Mosque of Sana'a		Sanaa	7th-8th Century	Part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Old City of Sana'a. [10]
Hanthel Mosque		Sanaa	?
Ashrafiya Mosque		City of Ta'iz	1275
Al-Janad Mosque		Taiz	7th-century
Mudhaffar Mosque		Taiz	13th Century
Talha Mosque		Sanaa	1620	[13]

See also

• List of mosques in Sana'a
• Islam in Yemen
• Lists of mosques

References

1. Stanley Gibbons' Simplified Stamp Catalogue (24 ed.). London: Stanley Gibbons Ltd. 1959. p. 1.
2. "Historic Town of Zabid". UNESCO Organization. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
3. "Tarim ... the town of mosques and schools". Yemen Times . November 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-04-16.
4. "مسجد المحضار". Archived from the original on 2013-09-01. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
5. "مسجد المحضار..منارة تناطح السحاب من "الطين" بتصميم أحد الشعراء". Poetry News Agency (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2014-10-07.
6. الحسني, أحمد (2005-01-17). "جبـــــــــــلة .. ثلاثية المرأة والأفيون والمآذن". Almotamar (in Arabic). Jiblah, Yemen. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
7. Jibla and its surroundings, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, retrieved 2009-04-20
8. Atiri, Hisham (31 January 2015). "The residents of Sufyan village in Yemen told Al Ayyam: The shrine of saint Sufyan had already been demolished in 1994 CE". Al Ayyam.
9. "Exhuming the grave of a man who did Jihad with Salahuddin al-Ayyubi in Lahij: The shrine of eminent scholar Sufyan was destroyed by terrorists". Shabwa Press. 28 January 2015.
10. "Old City of Sana'a". UNESCO Organization. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
11. "Al Saleh Mosque". Official Website of Yemen Tourism. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
12. Al-Omari, Moneer (24 November 2008). "Yemen's Grandest Mosque Inaugurated". Yemen Post . Retrieved 1 January 2013.
13. "Mosque and Hammam Al-Mudhaffar". World Monuments Fund. 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2014.