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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.

Ensar Mosque is an Islamic place of worship in Zenica, built between 1997 and 1998 in a pseudo-Moorish style. It was the first mosque erected in Zenica in contemporary times, after the Bosnian war.

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.

The mosque is located in the town of Momchilgrad and was built in the 17th century, and to this day it continues to be a functioning place of worship. Renovated in 2004, it is the only mosque in the region that has two minarets.

The mosque welcomed its long-waited renovation in 2018 and had been declared as a monument of local significance.