South Asia
Pakistan
Islamabad

Faisal Masjid

The Faisal Mosque is the national of , located in , the capital of the country. It is the sixth-largest mosque in the world and located on the foothills of Margalla Hills.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Sunni
  • Description: mosque in Islamabad (Pakistan)
  • Also known as: “Faisal Mosque”, “King Faisal Mosque, Islamabad”, and “Shah Faisal Mosque”
  • Address: فیصل مسجد روڈ, اسلام آباد, 44000
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Embassy of Brazil and Islamabad Zoo.

Government office
The in is the diplomatic mission of in . The current Brazilian ambassador to Pakistan is Olyntho Vieira. is situated 1 km southeast of Faisal Masjid.

Zoo
Photo: Farhan, CC BY 2.0.
, previously Marghazar Zoo, was an 82-acre zoo in . It was opened in 1978, and was under the administration of Capital Development Authority of Pakistan before its closure in December 2020 due to its mistreatment of animals. is situated 2 km east of Faisal Masjid.

Government office
Bilateral relations exist between and . Pakistan maintains an in , where the current Ambassador of Pakistan to Austria is Mohammad Kamran Akhtar MALIK. is situated 1½ km south of Faisal Masjid.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Islamabad and Saidpur.

Photo: Mustafajp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
A modern planned city that is well-maintained and well-organised, is 's clean, calm, and green capital. Founded in the 1960s, it attracts people from all over Pakistan, and hosts a large number of diplomats, politicians and government employees, making it one of the nation's most cosmopolitan and urbanized cities.

Village
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is a village and union council located in a ravine in Pakistan in the Margalla Hills, near the overlook, in the . is situated 3 km northeast of Faisal Masjid.

Village
Noorpur Shahan, Islamabad is a green locality situated between 3rd and 4th avenue of , Pakistan. It is also situated near to Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Quaid-i-Azam University and . is situated 7 km east of Faisal Masjid.

Faisal Masjid

Latitude
33.72975° or 33° 43′ 47″ north
Longitude
73.03805° or 73° 2′ 17″ east
Elevation
602 metres (1,975 feet)
Open location code
8J5MP2HQ+V6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8897406796
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­sunni
Geo­Names ID
7038506
Wiki­data ID
Q500983
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Faisal Masjid” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مسجد الملك فيصل”
  • Arabic: “مسجد شاه فيصل”
  • Arabic: “مسجد فيصل”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şah Feyzal məscidi”
  • Basque: “Faisal meskita”
  • Belarusian: “Мячэць Фейсала”
  • Bengali: “ফয়সাল মসজিদ”
  • Catalan: “Mesquita Faysal”
  • Central Kurdish: “مزگەوتی فەیسەڵ”
  • Chinese: “費薩爾清真寺”
  • Chinese: “费萨尔清真寺”
  • Czech: “Faisalova mešita”
  • Danish: “Faisalmoskéen”
  • Dutch: “Faisal Mosque”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد الملك فيصل”
  • Esperanto: “Moskeo de Reĝo Faisal”
  • French: “mosquée Faisal”
  • French: “Mosquée Faisal”
  • Fulah: “Faisal Mosque”
  • German: “Faisal-Moschee”
  • German: “Shah Faisal masjid”
  • Hausa: “Masallacin Faisal”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד המלך פייסל”
  • Hindi: “फैसल मस्जिद”
  • Hindi: “फ़ैसल मस्जिद”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Faisal Islamabad”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Faisal”
  • Italian: “moschea Faysal”
  • Italian: “Moschea Faysal”
  • Japanese: “キング・ファイサル・モスク”
  • Japanese: “ファイサル・モスク”
  • Javanese: “Masjid Faisal Islamabad”
  • Kashmiri: “مسجد شاه فیصل”
  • Kazakh: “Фейсал мешіті”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti w’Umwami Fayçal”
  • Komering: “Masigid Shah Faisal”
  • Korean: “파이살 모스크”
  • Korean: “파이잘 모스크”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mascita de Faisal”
  • Lithuanian: “Faisalo mečetė”
  • Lithuanian: “Feisalo mečetė”
  • Macedonian: “Џамија Шахџахан”
  • Malay: “Masjid Shah Faisal”
  • Marathi: “फैजल मशीद”
  • Marathi: “फैसल मशीद”
  • Nepali: “फैसल मस्जिद”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faisal-moskeen”
  • Norwegian: “Faisal-moskeen”
  • Panjabi: “ਫੈਸਲ ਮਸੀਤ”
  • Persian: “مسجد شاه فیصل”
  • Polish: “Meczet Króla Fajsala”
  • Portuguese: “Mesquita Faisal”
  • Pushto: “د شاه فیصل جومات”
  • Pushto: “د شاه فیصل مسجد”
  • Romanian: “Moscheea Faisal”
  • Russian: “Мечеть Фейсал”
  • Russian: “Мечеть Фейсала”
  • Sindhi: “فيصل مسجد”
  • Slovenian: “Faisalova mošeja”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita Faisal”
  • Spanish: “Shah Faisal Masjid”
  • Swedish: “Faisal Masjid”
  • Swedish: “Faisalmoskén”
  • Tamil: “பைசல் பள்ளிவாசல்”
  • Thai: “มัสยิดฟัยศ็อล”
  • Turkish: “Faysal Camii”
  • Turkish: “Faysal Camisi”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть Фейсал”
  • Urdu: “شاہ فیصل مسجد”
  • Urdu: “فيصل مسجد”
  • Urdu: “فیصل مسجد”
  • Uzbek: “Faysal masjidi”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà thờ Hồi giáo Shah Faisal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Moske Faisal”
  • Western Panjabi: “فیصل مسجد”

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