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Al Noor Mosque

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates · built 2005

Al Noor Mosque (Jāmiʿ An-Nūr) is a mosque in Sharjah, the U.A.E., located on the Khaled lagoon at the Buhaira Corniche. It is of Turkish Ottoman design and was influenced by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Turkey. It is one of the mosques open to the public in Sharjah, which has over 600 total. In 2014 the mosque set a Guinness World Record for the "World's largest wooden charity box" for their Ramadan donation campaign.

Mosque data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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