World Mosques Locationless, Locationless
By deetylong on 23-May-02. Waypoint GC5AEC

We did some research and found that there is a mosque in Cardiff S Wales UK. Unfortunately this is not it.
This used to be used as a mosque but it has been converted and now has a number of offices for private companies. We assume this is because another mosque has been built in Cardiff. We were looking for the new mosque but my husband remembered this building and we decided to photograph this instead.

This is a Mosques in Hamburg, Germany.
Some more (and better) pics you can find here: http://www.bildarchiv-hamburg.de/hamburg/kirchen/moschee_merkez_camii/
Thank you for the cache and all the best for the new year, Anette and Uwe

This Mosque, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, is a converted house. In fact, in Hertfordshire there is only one purpose built mosque, located in Watford.

Photographed at 16:16. It was dark but the street lights were on. My daughter Mary came with me for this one - despite the cold, squally weather. This mosque is located on the South Circular Road, Dublin. The building was originally a Catholic Church and the ornate building across the street was originally a Jewish Synagogue - now used as offices.

Happy New Year and “Go raibh míle maith agat†(Irish language).

Moonshiner X (Ireland) (cache # 226)

This is one of the many mosques in Bo kaap, in Cape town, South Africa.
It seemed to have no name, and alas I was not able to find out any other info on it though.

[8] BATS AND HIS SQUIRREL GOT ANOTHER
while driving out of town back home we cameacross this mosque in the indian area but i could get no info as the gate was locked

North America Islamic Center in Plainfireld,IN,On Center Street just north of I-70

Located in Tulsa,OK. One of only two Mosques in town. The Mosques was closed otday and a sign posted said no trespassing. TFTC

Looked up on www.salaam.co.uk where the nearest mosque was and it listed So I set off to find and photograph it this afternoon. When I got there it was not exactly what I was expecting - but a mosque is a mosque!

Found the "Yunus Emre Camii" in Utrechter Straße 33, Berlin-Wedding, Germany.
It belongs to the DIYANET ISLERI TÃœRK ISLAM BIRLIGI (DITIB),
which means: "Turkish Islamic Union of the Institution for Religion".
As far as I understand it is an organisation closely related to the Turkish state, directly linked to the Turkish Ministry of Religous Affairs.
It follows the idea of Islam as a state religion in Turkey.
DITIB has between 600 and 800 Mosques in Germany with about 110,000 members.
This mosque is probably a small one in a former shop.
Therefore the exterior appearance is rather unspectacular.
Thank you for this cache,
best regards from Berlin,
Wolfgang

Only Mosque we could find in the area. This is Muhammad Mosque #22 in Wilkinsburg, PA at 1001 South Avenue. No one was there and no one on Street had any details. Found their web page: http://www.pghmosque22.org/index.html Keith and Susan.

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Here is one which should already have been finished in october 2005. But as it is with erecting buildings, there is almost always a little time slip. So, this is the first and only mosque located in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Thanks to deetylong for the cache.
Kind regards
Marcus

This mosque in Milpitas, CA, USA. A collection of buildings that house the Baitul Baseer Mosque.

I found this info on Ahmadiya: [url=http://www.aboutahmadiyya.com/?gclid=CLSR5v3Gh4ICFQ23IgodPHdbPg] click here[/url]

This is the only Mosque in Lubbock, Tx. It is the Islamic Center of the South Plains.

In Boxtel the Netherlands a place whit about 30.000 habitans.

MASJID AL-HUDA
1081 W. Irving Park Road
Schaumburg, IL 60194

This is not to far from my office. I can’t remember exactly, but I know the building is less than 5 years old, at least in it’s current state.

A turkish Mosques in Hilden. A town in Germany.

FYI "Jesper 1" changed his "find" of Stockhom's main mosque to a "posted note", so if there are any Swedes out there looking for a cache to do in the dark, go for it!

-DeetyLong

MASJID Old Galveston (713) 947-0394 8830 Old Galveston Rd. Houston, TX. 77034 The basics
Denomination: Sunni (Salafi)
Demographics: Unknown
Prayers offered: Unknown
Language of Friday khutbah: English
Leadership
Imam: Unknown
Director/President: Unknown
Type of governance: Unknown
Women in leadership: Unknown
Facilities
Women's area: Unknown
Children's area: None
Restrooms: Unknown
Parking: None
Transit access: None
Disabled access: None
Phone: (713) 947-0394
Website: http://www.isgh.org
Email: None

Well I found another Mosque so I thought I would try this onw again. Hopefully this one hasn't been logged... Thanks!

We found it in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Neanderwolf und die Meute

I have looked a this mosque for the last 5 months, and it was only a game by Cache-u-nuts that got me looking at locationless.

A small mosque probably used by saddam husein himself.

The Fort Smith Islamic Center is in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Unfortunately, there was nobody on site to get info from. We found it at 1800 S. Albert Pike Rd.
Went on the web to get info & it shows to be at another location & another church at this address. ???? Maybe they traded buidings.

We passed this Mosque in our vacation at the island of Koh Lanta, Thailand. The building is nearly 50 years old but we couldn't get the name of the Mosque because there was nobody to ask for.
At one of the fotos you also can see a so called family-tuc-tuc. The maximum load capacity is up to 5! passengers including their luggage...

Greeting
globus from Germany

Found this one last week... but forgot to bring my camera, so I got the coords. Came back today with my camera, but the batteries were dead. Took batteries out of my GPS and placed them in the camera... they were too weak to operate the camera. Got in car, drove through miles of neighborhoods to finally find a store to buy batteries. Finally got back to take the pics. Ever happen to you?

This mosque is in Colleyville, TX.. pretty new too.

Mosquée AL-JADID située 181 BOULEVARD MAURICE LEMONNIER à BRUXELLES 1000
This Mosque is located in a popular district in the center of Brussels

One of numerous Mosques in Edmonton Canada - we love our Muslim brothers.... Thanks for the great LC!

Found this Mosque on the premisses of the Metro Home Center in Pretoria South Africa. The Mosque is situated between Proes and Vermeulen Street.

Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center
106 S Lincoln Ave, Urbana, IL

We have driven by this Mosque so many times without a camera and today final took one. The Web site is http://cimic.prairienet.org/ and they list the times that the Mosque is open.

This is my second try to log a Mosque.
Got this one on Belanger street in Motreal, Quebec, Canada.

I found it in Leverkusen, Germany.

This mosque, Abu-Bakr, is close to my in-laws house, and I had no idea it was there until it started appearing in the news. The religous leader here has been detained by Feds, for what they are not saying at this time, but the thought in the community at large, of course, is terrorist activities of some sort. The members of the mosque are saying their leader is a peaceful man. Not much to look at from the outside, and no one there on the day I dropped by.

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This is the Umar Mosque located on Rennie Street in Hamilton, Ontario, although it's not a very fancy one.

This is my local Mosque in Carlton, Nottingham, England. TFTC.

Habe diese Moschee in Kiel-Garden, Deutschland, gefunden.

schmittinger
N 54° 18.108 E 010° 07.686

We found this Mosque at Niederstraße in Düsseldorf, Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany.

Greetings from Germany
Wetterwachs

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Found this Masque on thop of Signal Hill in Cape Town, South Africa.

Az-Zaharaa Islamic Centre at 8580 No, 5 Road, Richmond, BC, Canada.

Found the Islamic center of Ahul-Beit tucked away in a quiet residential neighborhood in SE Denver. When I knocked at the door, noone came to answer it, unfortunately.

I was not able to dig up too much information about the mosque. Their website (www.AhlAlBeit-Denver.com) is under construction, and there was no answer when I called the information line. From what I could gather, their leader is Sheikh Ibrahim Kazerooni, and the Center is actively involved in providing educational and cultural services to the community.


Ahlul-Beit refers to the family of the Prophet Mohammed.

The North Watford Mosque was opened on 18 April 2003. It operates a crèche facility for the wider community, play area for young children, regular drop in sessions are held by Hertfordshire police for Muslims and non-Muslims who are not comfortable visiting a police station, an after school club for homework and language classes and is open to all members of the community.
The North Watford Mosque receives no public finance and the mosque committee are proud that funding has been raised by the local Muslim community.

This beautiful example of modern Islamic architecture is in Burnaby, British Columbia. It was built by Bruno Finchi, the same person that built Expo Centre (now Science World) for Vancouver's World's Fair, and encompases many traditional emblems. Written on the front doors, for example, is “None has the right to be worshipped but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.†These reminders in wood and metal of Islamic belief and Ismaili heritage are built into every feature of the architecture, essentially making the entire building into a profession of faith. One noticable element missing is the minaret. This was deleted from the original design due to the fact that the building was placed in a quiet suburban area. Instead, there are octagon/spiral staircases within the building leading to the roof which emulates the walk a muezzin would take five times a day if there was an actual tower in which to call the azaan.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get many pictures and none close up since it looked like the gates were closed and I didn't want to trespass. The GPS pic was taken at the gate but the doors should be seen in the background.

After submitting an already-logged Mosque (oops!), I went up the escalators in Mid-Levels to find this one. Here's what the "Discover Hong Kong" website has to say about this one:

"Hong Kong's first mosque was opened after the Islamic faith was introduced locally in the early 1850s. Shelley Street Mosque, complete with its green and white minaret, is located in the Mid-Levels and was built in 1915. It still stands on its original site in Central."

Only 1 Mosque left in HK to log!

Manassas Mosque. I was quite suprised when I looked up this local Mosque in Virginia. I was thinking it would be more elaborate, but it is in a small town without many Muslims apparently. It is located in a small strip mall off the beaten path. (all the larger ornate mosques in my area had been logged) TFTC!

This is a mosque in Vaassen, which is a place of 16.000 people in the middle of The Netherlands. The mosque has the name Sultan Ahmet Cami.

Thanks for this nice "culture awareness" cache!

This is the El-Moahedin Mosque in our home town Ede, Holland. Thanks for this cache.
Greetings from Holland, Bunbury Ede.

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This mosque is one of the remaining mosques of an area known as District 6. Originally established as a mixed community of freed slaves, merchants, artisans, labourers and migrants District Six was a vibrant centre with close links to the city and the port. In 1966 during the Apartheid regime, the area was declared a white area under the Group Areas Act, and by 1982 the life of the community was over and over 60 000 people were forcibly removed from the area and their houses flattened by bulldozers. Now, after the abolition of apartheid, the area is starting to grow again.

206 BRADFORD ROAD, BATLEY CARR, WEST YORKSHIRE, UK

This Mosque has an interesting history

1962 : An old dilapidated warehouse/storage depot was purchased at 206 Bradford Road, Batley to read prayer. It was called JAMAT KHANA and became the first mosque in the North of England

1966 : It was refurbished into a mosque an named JUMMA MASJID

TFTC - PhilPamandRob

I knew this mosque existed in a suburb of Lisbon. The main mosque was already logged so I made a small trip to Odivelas to make the foto and coords.

Odivelas, Lisboa, Portugal

PS: does anybody can tell me what are the writings on the wall?

Mosque near where we live in Trowbridge, Wilts.

Found in Luxor, Egypt - a big one near the Luxor temple.

This is the oldest mosque in Cape Town, South Africa (if not the whole country). It is located next to a characterful cobbled street. This building was constyructed in 1794.

THIS MOSQUE IS LOCATED IN SARNIA,ONTARIO CANADA AND FOUND ON LONDON LINE (GOLDEN MILE)
IT HAS ONLY BEEN THERE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS.FOR MORE INFO CHECK OUT THIS WEB PAGE

http://www.sarnia-muslims.com/

Kansas City, Missouri
Mosque at Islamic Center

Found this Muslim Center in the City of Toronto.

Vagabund

We found this mosque in the village of Kadriye in Türkei

The Mosque is situated on Ben Friedman Square, Gordons Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.It was, according to locals, built about 35 years ago to serve the Muslim comunity in the area. Unfortunately the Mosque was closed when I visited Gordons Bay so we was not able to enter.

Hello,
I found this Mosque in Duisburg/Laar in Germany. It`s in function since 1985 and have 160 members. It is not that big but in two years Duisburg becames the biggest Mosque in Europ!
Greatings from Germany,

der_Pate1970

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Hello,

this Mosques you can finde in Bruckhausen. It´s a part from Duisburg/Germany.

Thank you for the Cache

Greetings from Germany

Carsten

I found this Moschee in Essen, NRW Germany. Snowdream

We found this Mosque in Kansas City, Missouri.

Steve & Mary Brown
http://mysteve.com
Kansas City, MO
MOKan Geocaching Forum
http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php

The Dar-us-Salam Mosque, located in Leicester UK.

This is a converted residential building, so not much of a history is available.

[photo to follow]

Sultan Emir Mosque
Built in 1996. This Mosque ist situated in Darmstadt, Germany. It is also used as an multi cultural center. The costs of about 2.5 Mio EUR was collected by donations.
The two Minatrett-Towers are just for decoration.

Greetings from Germany
globus

Found @ 13:52

You would have thought that a place of worship/prayer should be easy to spot and accessible, however when we went in search of the Quwwatul Islam Mosque in Hemel Hempstead, we had a number of issues.

Firstly, the mosque is a converted residential building and we must have driven past it at least four times, before we actually realised where it was. Secondly, the mosque itself is hidden behind big black driveway doors; and it was only when we got out on foot to try and find it, that we spotted a number of muslims coming out of the doors.

We must admit that we did feel rather awkward lurking about outside dressed in black as people started coming out dressed all in white!, so we decided to make it quick and took the best photos we could of the place.

If we manage to get a better photo of the mosque we'll upload them, but for now I'm afraid they are a little vague.

More info on the mosque can be found at: http://www.hemelhempsteadtoday.co.uk/mk4custompages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=52604

this is the Hassan II Mosque in Cassablanca, Morroco.
The pray hall can receve 25 000 peoples. This mosque have the most biggest Minaret of the world 200meters.
This mosque was build between 1987- 1993 by 10 000 marocains.
look this!!!

This is the cental Mosque for the city of Wolverhampton West Midlands UK it is found off the waterloo road. Building commenced around 1998 and it opened in 2003 it is one of four Mosques found in the region of Wolverhampton UK.

This was quite a moment , I had to ask permission to take the micture of the Mosque, with all traditions, I was told to take off my shoes before entering, politeness for the great one.

Muslim Community Center, Islamic Society of Greater Worcester.

Not much of a history, but certainly an historic project at an historic time. This new mosque on East Mountain Street, Worcester, MA is nearly complete, and I expect it will be a welcome neighbor here in Central Massachusetts. http://www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=37001&theType=NB

Peace - Love - Fog

Found this mosque while driving down Queens blvd in Woodside NY. The building was very nicely tiled which made me notice it in the first place. For more info, click below.

[url=http://www.iiny.org/]Islamic Institute of New York[/url]

This Mosque is in Central Auckland New Zealand. Mad Actuary and myself, had to be careful not to look too suspicious with muggle mosque attendees!

This is the new mosque in Wolfsburg, Germany. As you can see, it´s still under construction and expected to be ready in October.
Greetings from Germany
Horst

This one was a bit of work. First, it did not look fancy like I expected. Then it was not on the street I calculated, it was around the corner. So I was preparing my printout, handheld, newspaper for the proof of date and then starting to take pictures.

Suddenly the door opend and a dark-eyed, dark-haired person came out and asked me what I am doing here. I tried to explain a little and he got nice, although I don't think, he knew what I was talking about.

I asked him if that was a real mosque and he said: of course! A place does not need to look like a palace if you want to pray. He asked me to cover my head and then I could have a look inside. After a short chat we parted. Nice experience.

Beutelteufelweibchen

Schura Moschee (Schura Mosque)
Lassallestrasse 2
1020 Wien, Austria

This Mosque is placed in Fuengirola, Costa del Sol, Málaga, Spain.

Found this new mosque on trip to Texas for my sister's 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration. Other than their many active sponsors, I couldn't get any more info as their website is still under construction. Islamic Assoc. of Carrollton, 1901 Kelly Boulevard, Carrollton, TX.

Lots of cache

Found this rather large and impressive Mosque while doing other caching in the Olney, MD area today.

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Let me try again, this time with the right picture.
Best regards from germany
Guido

***FYI: As you may know, this cache along with all other locationless caches will be archived on January 1, 2006***

This is a very recent addition to our home town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire. It does not show any architectural features normally associated with mosques and as far as we are aware, it was not purpose built. G&C

This is the London Muslim Mosque, in London, Ontario, Canada. As you can see, the photo was taken at night, so the mosque itself was not visible. There were many men coming out at the time that I took the photo, so I didn't want to appear disrespectful with my camera and GPS! The building itself is huge, with several turrets that have green lights at night. They have a website...I believe it is www.londonmuslimmosque.com, but I forgot to write it down after I viewed it.

The Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California offers religious services, educational, and cultural activities. It is located on Madison Steet in Oakland, California. It was founded in 1995 when several people joined together during Ramadam with the goal of establishing a unified Islamic presence in the Bay Area.

Location: City Mosque, Melbourne Victoria Australia

An unusual mosque, the City Mosque is on the edge of the Melbourne CBD and looks reasonably non-descript.

While there, several cab drivers were dropping by for their afternoon prayers.

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Completed as part of Partic's September Locationless Bonanza, successfully locating 21 unique locations in Melbourne.

Check the Melbourne Bonanza out on Google Earth http://www.kpsystems.com.au/geocaching/googleearth/locationless.kml

I was a bit sceptical about the entry by "Kelsborrow Wayfinders" (below), but they provided me with the following article:

http://www.monitoring-group.co.uk/News%20and%20Campaigns/news-stories/2004/regions/north%20west/racists_vandals_target_mosque.htm

and the coords match up with the street mentioned (see image).

Thanks much Wayfinders,

-DeetyLong

Found on 12th March 2005
We noticed a sign to this mosque while driving through Katanning in Western Australia. After following the signs, we arrived to find the place deserted, but the gate was open, so we drove in and took a couple of photos. The sign says (simply) Katanning Mosque. With no one around, we couldn't found out any information about it for the log (sorry).

This mosque is located in Hamilton (pop 100,000) New Zealand. It was built in the late 1990’s to service the local Pakistani Moslems and the growing refugee communities from Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. My son is holding our Garmin 60CS - trust this is OK

Not one of the most elaborate Mosques of the World! Exeter in Devon is home to the South West of England's Islamic Centre.
It was established in 1978 through the efforts of local Muslim businessmen and concerned students from the University of Exeter and since it's formation it has grown considerably both in it's physical size and activities.

In 1999 Exeter City Council approved for the construction of a purpose built Mosque but unfortunately funding was a problem and so this has had to be postponed for some time.

The images show the two main buildings of the Mosque, along with an artists impression of the proposed building.

Many thanks, The Hancock Clan

The Al Khalil mosque is located in Woodville North, a suburb of Adelaide. A quick web search brought up this useful link

http://notes.nt.gov.au/lant/hansard/HANSARD8.NSF/0/be08e8c51a504a8d692567150001a007?OpenDocument

that tells us the mosque opened in 1998 and was a gift to the people of Adelaide from a resident, Mr. Fred Shahin.

This is Masjid Negara Malaysia, or the National Mosque of Malaysia. These pictures don't do it justice. It also looks great at night, as various bits of it are lit in bright blue.

I've included three photos: the standard GPSr shot, taken at the sign at the front of the building; a shot from the front of the mosque; and a shot taken from a hill (bukit in Malay) overlooking the mosque.

This mosque is located in the capital city of Australia, Canberra. It is amongst the embassies of many countries and the land across the road is reserved for the future Iranian Embassy.

Brisbane Mosque - Mount Gravatt East, Brisbane Australia.

This one is only in the next suburb to me, so I thought I'd better log it!

Muslim settlers began to enter the Mount Gravatt East area at the end of the 1800s. In 1908 Sam Watson built the Mosque in the Kahn's paddock on Nursery Road. The present mosque, complete with domed roof and minarets, was built in the 1970s with a gift of money from Kuwait.

Paul (Rogainer)