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The Best Mosques I’ve Visited
Mosques: Islamic Houses of Worship one can encounter around the world. Having long loved traveling in the Muslim World, grand mosques are some of the greatest landmarks I’ve witnessed so witness this! I’m taking religious centers and indiscriminately and redundantly comparing them to each other in a pointless ranking list… YEE YEE!!
1. Bursa Great Mosque, Bursa, Turkey
Bursa Ulu Cami! That means Bursa Great Mosque in Turkish! I love that! As a result, I wanna learn Turkish but it be mad hard 😭! Therefore someone teach me! I’ll give u a hug! Regardless, this mosque is kinda hard to see from afar or a farm but it’s far from lame. The outside is typical Ottoman architecture evidently befitting the old imperial capital. However, inside is where the magic lies! Seriously, I saw Dumbledore there. Emphasis on the word lies also. Amazing calligraphy, shining lights, soft carpets! What more could you want? (Rhetorical)
2. Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo, Egypt
I went here and almost got scammed into buying sandals. Or maybe I did yet I don’t recall. What i do recall, however, is that this Mosque was litty befitty of the gritty city my nitty! Ya get me? Nevertheless, it’s kind of simple yet impressive with a sand-colored facade, vast open courtyard, and dummy thicc spiral minaret. And you know how I feel about the curves 😏
3. Grand Mosque of West Sumatra, Padang, Indonesia
The newest Mosque on this list, when was this mosque built? That’s your cue! Look it up because my hands fell off! In the West Sumatran Metropolis Padang, this uniquely shaped and designed massive mosque indeed features shell-like inner and outer shapes and a minaret that fondles the sky. Bruh what? Okay, I’m not the best at descriptions but this is the Minangkabau style modernized and gigantic, emerging like a pimple on the face of life when life goes through puberty, gets kicked out of the house, and has to spend nights ripping holes into stuffed animals and crawling in to escape the cold and finally feel the love parents deprived it for years in one fleeting moment of bliss.
4. Kairouan Great Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia
This is one of the holiest cities in Islam, and specifically its site in Africa, centered around this mosque. Upon entering Kairouan, they believed I was a local. Therefore I could’ve entered for free but my dumbass had to be honest and say I’m American and pay a tiny fee. Albeit, it was worth it for the widest of inner courtyards baking in the desert sun while a roaring tower roars above it all. “RAAAAHHHH!” It cried, but not the Egyptian God card. “AAAAARRRGGHHH!” Okay I guess Kairouan is a pirate now. Check out the various Zaouias of the city too. And just walk around Kairouan too it’s an underrated North African gem. With a mosque that’s immaculate, it’s accurate to say Kairouan is Kairou-can’t miss!
In total, that’s the list! Those are my picks for best mosques I’ve visited! Hence, go dial 911 to report your opinion on the lyrical exercise before you! While you’re on the line, ask the officer if they want a part 2! Cuz u know what nobody says; the Mosque the Merrier!
