Leaning Mosque

The founding place and chief symbol of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam.

Every year, people come together to cover this mud-brick mosque with a fresh layer of earth.

This mosque was built overnight as an act of defiance against the British colonial authorities.

Controversially restored in the 1970s, this giant 15th-century mosque is shrouded in legend.

The tallest mud-brick structure in the world has been standing since the 1500s.

Also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, this is one of the world's largest and oldest mosques.

Next to a newer mosque in Khujand’s main square lies the city’s oldest mosque, whose interiors are spectacularly intricate.

This wooden mosque is one of the few remnants of medieval Poland's Muslim Tatar community in this deeply Catholic country.