Mosques & Muslim traveller notes

The great blue mosaic dome of 1989, built to hold thousands of worshippers. Non-Muslim visitors are welcome outside prayer times; there is a small Islamic museum inside.

Downtown’s main mosque, rebuilt in 1924 by King Abdullah I on the site of an older mosque. Friday prayers fill the surrounding streets.

A striking black-and-white chequered mosque built by Circassian settlers on Jabal Al-Ashrafieh, with wide city views.

Amman’s largest mosque, in white stone with four minarets, beside King Hussein Park in the west of the city.

The cave linked by many to the story in Surah Al-Kahf, with a mosque above it, on Amman’s south-eastern edge.

The resting places of Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah and Mu’adh ibn Jabal, each with a mosque. Both died in the plague of Amwas in 18 AH.

The site of the Battle of Mu’tah and, at nearby Al-Mazar, the tombs of Ja’far, Zaid ibn Haritha and Abdullah ibn Rawaha. Pair it with Karak Castle.