Islamic pilgrimage sites

Connected Sites: 10

Definition
Top pilgrimage sites for Shia or Sunni muslims. Mecca and Medina are generally considered no. 1 and no. 2, several others are vying for spots no. 3 - 5.

Map

Connected Sites

  • Kairouan
    Kairouan
    Tunisia
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.03
    146
    4
    Centre of Islamic faith in the Maghreb; "third-holiest site" in Islam
  • Sulaiman-Too
    Sulaiman-Too
    Kyrgyzstan
    Inscribed: 2009
    2.23
    63
    3
    Sulaiman-Too is the main holy and pilgrimage site for Muslims of southern Kyrgyzstan and the Ferghana Valley
  • Robben Island
    Robben Island
    South Africa
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.63
    122
    9
    Just to the north of the maximum security prison is the Kramat, a monument built in 1967 on the site where Hadjie Mattarm, a Muslim holy man exiled by the VOC from the East Indies to Robben Island in 1744, was buried. He died in 1755 and his tomb became a place of pilgrimage for the Muslim community of the Cape. (AB ev)
  • Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
    Inscribed: 2017
    3.13
    67
    5
  • Central Highlands
    Inscribed: 2010
    3.09
    134
    7
    Adam's Peak
  • Old City of Jerusalem
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.36
    275
    12
    In terms of the virtue of a religious site, and the value of prayers performed within it, Muslims believe that the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is the third most virtuous mosque
  • Harar Jugol
    Harar Jugol
    Ethiopia
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.85
    43
    2
    "the fourth holiest city of Islam"
  • Damascus
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.89
    77
    5
    Umayyad Mosque, after Mecca and Medina possibly the world's third most important mosque
  • Bolgar
    Bolgar
    Russia
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.26
    34
    5
    Muslim pilgrimage centre (AB ev)
  • Ancient Ksour
    Ancient Ksour
    Mauritania
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.05
    23
    3
    Chinguetti: major site for African pilgrims, principal gathering place for pilgrims of the Maghreb to gather on the way to Mecca