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Jama Masjid, Bhilai

Chhattisgarh, India

Jama Masjid, Bhilai
Jama Masjid, Bhilai. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Jama Mosque, or Jama Masjid, is a Sunni Islam mosque, located in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. The mosque was completed in the 1960s and can accommodate 3,000 worshippers at a time and is one of the largest mosques in the state, and also in Asia. It is the first mosque in the world to be built in the shape of the word "Ya Allah" in Arabic script. It took three years for the construction of the mosque which was completed in 1967.

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

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