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Also known as the Great Mosque , it is the main mosque of the city of Shkodra. It was built in 1994–1995 on the site of the former Fushë Çela mosque under the sponsorship of Saudi Arabia. The two minarets are 41.11 meters high. The central dome has a height of 24 meters. The mosque can hold up to 1300 believers.

Akhat-Jami is a mosque-cathedral in Donetsk, built between 1994 and 1999. It is named after Akhat Hafizovych Bragin, an entrepreneur and former president of the Shakhtar Donetsk football club, who died in a bomb attack in 1995. The building was originally intended to have only one minaret, but funding from Rinat Akhmetov enabled a second one to be built, which was eventually named after him.

The mosque is located in the central part of Kyustendil, next to a Roman Therms. The mosque is an impressive building with large dome and marble pillars and supports.

The only remaining active mosque in the city, it was built in the 16th century in the Ottoman style.

The Arab Cultural Centre in Odessa, which includes the Al Salam Mosque, was inaugurated in June 2001. It was built at the expense of Syrian businessman Kivan Adnan. The design of the building was developed by the Odessa Architecture and Restoration Bureau Archproekt-MDM.

Al-Aga is considered the oldest mosque in the entire Balkan region. It was built in 1289 before the arrival of the Ottomans.

A newly constrcuted place of worship to accommodate the Muslim population in M│laga, this mosque was funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The architecture combies traditional handcrafts with modern technologies of movable modules, for example, the patio's wooden ceiling can be removed when the daytime is bright to let in natual lighting.

The Wolfsburg Islamic Cultural Centre with the Al-Salam Mosque was built between 2004 and 2006 for the Tunisian community in the city. The centrepiece of the Islamic Cultural Centre is the Al-Salam Mosque, whose square plan is 16 metres long. Above it, the mosque rises in the shape of a large cube and is covered by a dome crowned by a crescent moon.

Alaca Imaret is a 15th-century mosque founded in 1484 during the reign of Mehmed II. The place functioned as an imaret (soup kitchen), a madrasa (priestly school) and a place of prayer. It owes its name of Alaca to its coloured minaret (Alaca = coloured). In 1970, as the northern part of the portico had collapsed in the previous year, maintenance work was carried out for the first time, which was repeated in 1993-1996.

The Ali Pasha Mosque is a complex built from 1560 to 1561. The mosque restored in 1894 was severely affected by Serb attacks during the Bosnian war. The building was finally rebuilt in 2004 and added to the list of national monuments in 2005.