Images - Great Mosques Around the World

As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid ul Fitr in a joyous culmination of the holy month of Ramadan, enjoy this visual pilgrimage of mosques around the world. From Afghanistan and China, Saudi Arabia, Germany, India and Egypt, to Peru, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, these 55 centres of faith are testimony to the spread of Islam across the world.

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ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN: Islamic worshippers gather outside the Great Mosque during Friday Muslim prayers in Almaty in the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. It was completed in 1999 after six years of construction on the site of an old mosque. Under Soviet communist rule, religion was suppressed in Kazakhstan and many other countries of the former USSR.
ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN: Islamic worshippers gather outside the Great Mosque during Friday Muslim prayers in Almaty in the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. It was completed in 1999 after six years of construction on the site of an old mosque. Under Soviet communist rule, religion was suppressed in Kazakhstan and many other countries of the former USSR.