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After the Ottoman conquest of Plovdiv in the 14th century, this mosque was built on the site of the Sveta Petka Tarnovska Cathedral Church. During the reign of Sultan Murad I, the original buinding was demolished and the modern mosque was built in the 15th century. The mosque contains nine domes, a large prayer hall, a minaret, and interior wall paintings dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.

East London Mosque is a Muslim place of worship serving the community between the districts of Whitechapel and Aldgate East in London.

Edinburgh Central Mosque is a Muslim place of worship near the University of Edinburgh inaugurated in 1998 .

The Eger Minaret, probably built at the beginning of the 17th century, is the northernmost Ottoman monument in Europe and the highest and best preserved of the three intact minarets in Hungary. During 91 years of Turkish rule, a total of ten minarets were erected in Eger, but only one remains. The mosque that was attached to the minaret was transformed into a Catholic church dedicated to St. Joseph after the Turkish domination, then into a hospital in the 18th century, and finally demolished in 1841. A church was built in its place.

El Tawheed is a Mosque founded in 1986, very close to the Kosverlorenvaart canal in Amsterdam.

It is a 17th-century building which constitutes one of the main landmarks of Chalkis town.

The Emperor's Mosque, built in 1462, is one of the first mosques built in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the first in Sarajevo. Throughout the history of the mosque, it has been modernized and renovated. During the Second World War and the war of the 1990s, the mosque, like many others, was damaged but was restored. It is a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

An arabic inscription at the entrace of the mosque mentions 1395 as the construction time of the monument, making it the oldest mosque in the country.

This is the only functioning mosque in the city, the name Eski means old in Bulgarian, refering to the long history behind its construction.

The Eski Mosque (former mosque) was built by Tatar Sinan Bey in 1532. The mosque is a single-domed building with a porch on the north side, which is a basic architectural element of the first Ottoman mosque and one of the most numerous types of 16th-century mosques in the Balkans. Renovated several times, it suffered its greatest damage in 1944, when the minaret and its upper part were hit.