The Jameh Mosque of Makki, officially the Grand Makki Mosque of Zahedan (), also known as the Makki Mosque, is one of the world's largest

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s, and the largest

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, located in the center of

Zahedan Zahedan (Balochi language, Balochi and ; ) is a city in the Central District (Zahedan County), Central District of Zahedan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, th ...

, the capital of the Sistan and Baluchestan province. The mosque has a capacity of over worshippers at any time.

History

The founder of the mosque was Abdul Aziz Malazada who, until his death in 1987, had the most important Sunni religious authority of the Baloch in Sistan-Balochistan in Iran. The Makki Mosque was founded in 1971 as part of the Jamiat Darul Uloom seminary which is located next to the Makki mosque. The Darul Uloom is part of the

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School. The Darul Uloom in Zahedan is the center for the Sunni Baloch people who live in eastern Iran. From its founding in the early 1970s, it has become the center of a network of thousands of mosques in the region, 120 Deobandi madrasas and about seventy seminaries of which forty are under direct leadership of the Zahedan-based Darul Uloom. For years, the mosque was overcrowded with a large number of worshippers and its space was inadequate for everyone to be able to pray inside the mosque. Prayers often had to be offered on the nearby streets. An expansion project was started which made the Makki Mosque the largest Sunni mosque in Iran after completion. In 2010, the old mosque building with its two

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s were demolished to make room for the new mosque with four minarets. Annual gatherings and conferences in the Makki Mosque attract large numbers of Deobandi and other Sunni scholars from Iran and neighboring countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan. These gatherings and conferences have often prominent Deobandi speakers like the president of the Darul'Uloom in Karachi and speakers linked to the

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Leadership

The founder of the Makki mosque Maulana Abd-al-Aziz Mullahzada (1916–1987) was a well-respected Deobandi scholar. He was the major proponent of the spread of the Deobandi thought in Sistan-Baluchistan. His influence kept growing and after being acknowledged as the religious authority of the Baluch people, his religious authority spread all over the Sunni communities in Iran. , the

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of the congregation is Molavi Abdul Hamid.

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