Imam Hussein Mosque ( ar, مسجد الإمام الحسين), in

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District, Kuwait City, is the largest

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mosque A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a Place of worship, place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers (sujud) ...

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the no ...

. Its prayer hall accommodates about 4,000 to 5,000 men and 500 to 1,000 women. The mosque was built in 1986. It was unharmed in the 1990

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1986 establishments in Kuwait Buildings and structures in Kuwait City Mosques completed in 1986 Shia mosques in Kuwait {{Kuwait-mosque-stub

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