List of first mosques by country

This is a list of the first known mosque established in each country. For the purposes of this list, the mosques given are the "first" to occur within the boundaries of the modern nations listed, though they may not have been part of those nations at the time of the founding of the listed mosque.

Country	Year of establishment	Name and location	Notes
Iraq	639	Great Mosque of Kufa, Kufa	The Great Mosque of Kufa, was built soon after the establishment of Kufa as a military town during the Rashidun conquest of Iraq.
Syria	634	Umayyad Mosque, Damascus	The Umayyad Mosque, was originally built after the Muslim conquest of the city in 634. The current structure dates to 715.
Egypt	642	Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, Cairo	Built after the Muslim conquest of Egypt by the Sahabi Amr ibn al-As
Niger	1515	Agadez Mosque, Agadez	Niger's oldest mosque.
China	742	Great Mosque of Xi'an, Xi'an	The Great Mosque of Xi'an, was built in 742. The modern structure dates mostly to the 18th century.
Taiwan	1947	Taipei Grand Mosque, Taipei	Oldest and most famous mosque in Taiwan.
United States	1929	Ross, North Dakota	The Mother Mosque of America, built in Iowa in 1934, became the oldest standing mosque in America when the Ross mosque was torn down in the 1970s. The Ross mosque was later rebuilt in 2005.
Saudi Arabia	622	Quba Mosque, Medina	Quba Mosque, built by Prophet Muhammad upon his arrival in Madinah during the Hijrah. The first mosque of Islam.
Hong Kong (then British Hong Kong)	1890	Jamia Mosque, Mid-Levels
Macau (then Portuguese Macau)	1980	Macau Mosque, Our Lady of Fatima Parish
Canada	1938	Al-Rashid Mosque, Edmonton, Alberta
India	629	Cheraman Juma Masjid, Kodungallur, Kerala	Built by Malik Deenar and named after king Cheraman Perumal
	628-630	Jumma Masjid of Kilakarai, Tamil Nadu	Constructed by Yemeni merchants and traders, ordered by Yemeni governor Bazan ibn Sasan. Rebuild in the 11th century.
Ireland	1976	7 Harrington Street, Dublin	The first purpose-built mosque was built in Ballyhaunis in 1987.
Iceland	2002	Reykjavík Mosque, Reykjavik	Not a purpose-built mosque, but serves as an interim gathering site
Bulgaria	1363-1364	Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv	During the reign of Sultan Murad II the old building was demolished and replaced by the modern-day mosque.
United Kingdom	1891	Liverpool Muslim Institute	Several sources state that a mosque was founded in 1860 at 2 Glynrhondda Street, Cardiff, Wales. This has been rejected by an academic paper as a transcription error.
Czech Republic	1998	Brno	Construction began 1996, inaugurated 1998
Brazil	1929	São Paulo
Chile	1995	Mezquita as-Salam, Santiago	Commissioned 1989, inaugurated 1995
Australia	1882	Marree Mosque, Marree, South Australia	Built by Australia's "Afghan" camel-drivers; no longer standing
Taiwan	1947	Taipei Grand Mosque, Taipei	Original building was firstly used in 1947, then it was relocated to a new site where it was reconstructed in 1960
Papua New Guinea	2000	Port Moresby	Islam was introduced to the island in the 1970s, and the first Islamic centre established in 1988.
South Africa (then Cape Colony)	1798	Awwal Mosque, Cape Colony
Panama	1930		Built by the Ahmadiyya Muslims.
Suriname (then a colony of the Netherlands)	1906		Built by immigrant Javanese rice farmers.
Argentina	1983	At-Tauhid Mosque, Buenos Aires	Opened in October 1983 by the shia community of Buenos Aires and with the support of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Argentina.
Spain (then the Emirate of Córdoba)	784	Córdoba	Build by Abd al-Rahman I, the first Muslim ruler of Spain
Germany	1922-1924	Berlin	Sources differ as to the original mosque: an Ahmadiyya mosque (Berlin Mosque) was built in 1924; the Deutsch-Moslemische Gesellschaft was built in 1922, and a wooden mosque for prisoners of war was built near Berlin during World War I. The first Islamic cemetery was founded in 1798.
France	1905, 1926	Saint-Denis, Réunion (1905), Paris (1926, first in Metropolitan France)	The 1926 Paris mosque was the first mosque built in France since the 8th century; it was built in the Moroccan style, and honored Muslim French veterans of World War I.
New Zealand	1979 (begun)	Auckland	Cornerstone laid in 1979; the first Islamic centre in the country was installed in an Auckland house bought in 1959
Fiji	1922 (approximate)	Vitogo, Nausori, and Tavua	A number of wooden mosques were built by local Islamic assemblies around 1922.
Philippines	1380	Sheik Karimal Makdum Mosque, Tubig Indangan, Simunul island, Tawi-Tawi province	Founded by Makhdum Karim, who introduced Islam to the Philippines
Japan	1935	Kobe Mosque, Kobe	Designed in the Turkish style by a Czech architect; confiscated by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943 and later returned
South Korea	1976	Seoul Central Mosque, Seoul
Costa Rica	1995		Founded by the Islamic Cultural Association of Costa Rica
Venezuela	1968	Alparaiso
Oman	600s	Masjid Mazin, Sumail	Founded by Mazin Ben Ghadooba, the first Omani to adopt Islam, and adopted it during Mohammed's lifetime
Tunisia	670	Mosque of Uqba, Kairouan	Oldest mosque in the Western Islamic world, first in the Maghreb
Finland	1942	Järvenpää mosque	Finland's first Muslim cemetery was established in the 1830s for Russian troops.
Denmark	1967	Hvidovre, outside Copenhagen	Founded by the Ahmadiyya; first purpose-built mosque in a Nordic country
Sweden	2000	Stockholm	Converted from Katarinastation, a former power station
Norway	1974	Islamic Cultural Centre, Oslo	Founded by Pakistani-Norwegians aided by Danish Muslims; of the Sunni Deobandi school. The first Shi'a mosque, Anjuman-e Hussain, opened in 1975; the first Sunni Barelvi mosque opened in 1976.
Switzerland	1961	Islamic Center in Geneva, Geneva	Founded by Said Ramadan
Austria	1979	Vienna Islamic Centre, Vienna
Bahrain	1000–1200 (approximate)	Suq al-Khamis mosque	Though most of the structure is dated to the 11th or 12th century, popularly believed to have been founded by the Caliph Omar in the 600s.
Russia (Dagestan then part of the Arabian Caliphate)	700-900 (approximate)	Dzhuma Mosque, Derbent, Dagestan
Lithuania (then the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)	1500-1600	various	Records indicate Lithuanian Tatars built mosques in the Duchy during the 16th century
Poland	1558 (earliest attestation in writing)		Tatar mosques in Poland were noted in a 1558 treatise Risale-i Tatar-i Lech.
Swaziland	1981		Heavily financed by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth
Botswana	1960s	Lobatse	Founded by Indian Muslims brought over during the British colonial period
Rwanda (then German East Africa)	1913	Al-Fatah Mosque, Kigali	Founded by coastal Swahili-speaking Tanzanian Muslims who came to Rwanda to work in the German administration.
Togo	1820	Sokodé
Brunei	1430 (approximate)		Built under the direction of Sharif Ali ("Sultan Berkat"), who reigned 1425-1432.
Singapore	1820	Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka	Originally a wooden structure built by Arab merchant Syed Omar Ali Aljunied
Lesotho	1900 (approximate)	Butha Buthe	Founded by Soofie Saheb at the turn of the century; the community is described as African Muslim yet speaking an Indian language.
Kenya	830 (approximate)	Shanga, Pate Island	Foundation discovered, with coins attesting dates, during the 1980s excavations. The earliest concrete evidence of Muslims in East Africa.
Eritrea	620-630 (approximate)	Massawa	Believed to be the first mosque on the African continent.
Belize	2008 (approximate)	Belize City	Founded by Belizeans who converted to Islam while in the United States.
Jamaica	1950s	Westmoreland and Spanish Town	Constructed by the Islamic Society of Jamaica, which was founded in 1950.
Haiti	1985
Montenegro	1471	Plav	Built during the Ottoman rule in the city.
Slovenia	1916	Log pod Mangartom Mosque	Built by Bosniak members of the Austro-Hungarian army.
Kosovo	1268	Al-Agha Mosque, Dragaš	Built by Muslims who migrated from Aleppo, Syria to Kosovo.
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1448-1449	Ustikolina	Built by Turhan Emin-beg. Known that was destroyed two times (1941, 1992) and rebuilt two times (1956, 2007).
Albania	1466	Elbasan Castle	Built by the orders of Sultan Mehmed II.
Croatia	1969	Gunja	One of the few mosques in Croatia, located near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Romania	1575	Mangalia Mosque, Mangalia
Turkey	717-718	Arap Mosque, Istanbul	Mosque was built on this site during the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople in 717–18 by the Umayyad prince and general Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik.

See also

• Oldest mosques in the world