Muscat’s Ten Most Beautiful Mosques

Mosques provide a great opportunity to explore Muscat from a cultural, historic, and architectural aspect. Many of the mosques listed below are also some of the world’s most extravagant worship structures that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. A number of these mosques are also open to non-Muslims to enter and explore free of charge.

Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque is the grand jewel of royal Omani architecture and one of the most gorgeous  mosques ever built. It is located in Bawshar on the Sultan Qaboos Highway and cannot be missed. Its hand made Persian rug and its Swarovski crystal chandelier were both at some point considered the largest in the world. Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque is open to Non-Muslims.

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