Conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques

The conversion of non-Islamic places of worship into mosques occurred during the life of Muhammad[citation needed] and continued during subsequent Islamic conquests and invasions and under historical Muslim rule.

Upon the capture of Jerusalem, it is commonly reported that Umar refused to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in spite of a treaty.

[2] Umar initially built there a small prayer house which laid the foundation for the later construction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Umayyads.

A Catholic church dedicated to Saint Vincent of Lérins, was built by the Visigoths in Córdoba; during the reign of Abd al-Rahman I, it was converted into a mosque.

[9] The Herodian shrine of the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, the second most holy site in Judaism,[13] was converted into a church during the Crusades before being turned into a mosque in 1266 and henceforth banned to Jews and Christians.

Hagia Sophia , a mosque converted from an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in AD 1453.
Dome of the Rock is a shrine in Jerusalem. Prophet Muhammad , founder of Islam, is traditionally believed to have ascended into heaven from this site. In Jewish tradition, it is here that Abraham , the progenitor and first patriarch of the Hebrew people, is said to have prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac . The Dome and Al-Aqsa Mosque are both located on the Temple Mount the site of Solomon's Temple and its successors.
Fethija Mosque in Bihać, Bosnia
Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
Painting of the ruins of the Parthenon and the Ottoman mosque built after 1715, in the early 1830s
The Rotunda of Galerius in Thessaloniki , initially a Mausoleum of Roman Emperor Galerius , a church (326–1590), then a mosque and again a church after 1912
After the conquest of Hebron , this holy place was "taken over from the Jewish tradition" by the Muslim rulers. The cave and the surrounding Herodian enclosure was converted into a mosque. [ 10 ]
The Umayyad Mosque was built on the site of several prior religious sites.
The Selimiye Mosque was the largest and oldest surviving Gothic church in Cyprus , which was possibly constructed on the site of an earlier Byzantine church.
The Great Synagogue of Oran was the largest synagogue in North Africa until it was converted into the Abdellah Ben Salem Mosque in 1975. [ 42 ]