This is a list of Turkish Grand Mosques or ''Ulucami'', a title originally given to the grandest
Friday mosque
A congregational mosque or Friday mosque (, ''masjid jāmi‘'', or simply: , ''jāmi‘''; ), or sometimes great mosque or grand mosque (, ''jāmi‘ kabir''; ), is a mosque for hosting the Friday noon prayers known as ''jumu'ah''.*
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of a Turkish city where local citizens traditionally gathered en masse for
Friday Prayers
In Islam, Friday prayer or Congregational prayer ( ar, صَلَاة ٱلْجُمُعَة, ') is a prayer (''ṣalāt'') that Muslims hold every Friday, after noon instead of the Zuhr prayer. Muslims ordinarily pray five times each day accordin ...
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though today it is common for Muslims in a single city to gather in several different mosques for these prayers.
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Turkish Grand Mosques
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List of mosques in Turkey
This is a list of mosques in Turkey. As of March 2013, there were 82,693 mosques in Turkey. The province with the highest number of mosques (3,113) was Istanbul and the lowest number (117) was Tunceli Province.[List of mosques in Istanbul
Istanbul, as the capital of the Ottoman Empire since 1453 and the largest city in the Middle East, contains a great number of mosques. In 2007, there were 2,944 active mosques in Istanbul.
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These Byzantine structures were con ...]
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List of mosques in Europe
This is a partial list of mosques in Europe.
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* Lists of mosques
* Islam in Europe
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List of mosques in Asia
This is a list of lists of mosques in Asia.
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*Lists of mosques
References
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Lists of religious buildings and structures in Asia, Mosques
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Lists of mosques
Lists of mosques cover mosques, places of worship for Muslims. The lists include the most famous, largest and oldest mosques, and mosques mentioned in the Quran, as well as lists of mosques in each region and country of the world. The major region ...
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Islam in Turkey
Islam is the most practiced religion in Turkey. The established presence of Islam in the region that now constitutes modern Turkey dates back to the later half of the 11th century, when the Seljuks started expanding into eastern Anatolia.
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