 | This article duplicates the scope of other articles, specifically List of tallest minarets.(February 2024) |
A list of the 30 tallest mosques in the world. The height value gives the height of the tallest element of the mosque (usually a minaret).
| This article duplicates the scope of other articles, specifically List of tallest minarets.(February 2024) |
A list of the 30 tallest mosques in the world. The height value gives the height of the tallest element of the mosque (usually a minaret).
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| Name | Country | City | Height | Year of completion | Remarks | |
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| 1 | Djamaa el Djazaïr |  Algeria | Algiers | 265 metres | 2019 | |
| 2 | Hassan II Mosque [1] |  Morocco | Casablanca | 210 metres | 1993 | |
| 3 | Rahmatan Lil-Alamin Mosque |  Indonesia | Indramayu | 210 metres | 2021 | |
| 4 | Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque [2] |  Malaysia | Shah Alam | 142.3 metres | 1988 | 106.7 metres high dome |
| 5 | Great Mosque of Mecca [3] |  Saudi Arabia | Mecca | 139 metres | 1570 | |
| 6 | Grand Mosalla mosque of Tehran [4] |  Iran | Tehran | 136 metres | 2006 | Unfinished as of 2019 |
| 7 | Al Fateh Grand Mosque |  Bahrain | Manama | 130.1 metres | 1988 | |
| 8 | Putra Mosque [5] | Malaysia | Putrajaya | 116 metres | 1999 | |
| 9 | Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque [6] |  United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | 115 metres | 2008 | |
| 10 | Mosque of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim [7] |  Venezuela | Caracas | 113 metres | 1989 | |
| 11 | Al-Masjid an-Nabawi | Saudi Arabia | Medina | 112 metres | 1994 | |
| 12 | Al-Nour Mosque [8] |  Egypt | Cairo | 111.9 metres | ||
| 13 | Grand Mosalla mosque of Isfahan [9] | Iran | Isfahan | 110 metres | 2010 | |
| 14 | Çamlıca Republic Mosque [10] |  Turkey | Istanbul | 107.1 metres | 2016 | |
| 15 | The Grand Mosque [11] | United Arab Emirates | Dubai | 107 metres | 2007 | |
| 16 | Al Jabbar Grand Mosque | Indonesia | Bandung | 99 metres | 2023 | |
| 17 | Sabancı Central Mosque [12] | Turkey | Adana | 99 metres | 1998 | |
| 18 | Jameh Mosque of Makki [13] | Iran | Zahedan | 92 metres | 2010 | |
| 19 | Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque [14] |  Oman | Muscat | 91.3 metres | 2001 | |
| 20 | Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini [15] | Iran | Tehran | 91 metres | 1992 | |
| 21 | Faisal Mosque [16] |  Pakistan | Islamabad | 90 metres | 1987 | |
| 22 | Kocatepe Mosque [17] | Turkey | Ankara | 88 metres | 1987 | |
| 23 | Abdülhamid Han Mosque | Turkey | Kahramanmaras | 88 metres | ||
| 24 | Maltepe Merkez Mosque | Turkey | Istanbul | 87 metres | ||
| 25 | Mosque of Muhammad Ali [18] | Egypt | Cairo | 84.1 metres | 1848 | |
| 26 | Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan [19] | Egypt | Cairo | 84 metres | 1364 | |
| 27 | Selimiye Mosque | Turkey | Edirne | 83 metres | 1574 |
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