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Draft:List of Mosques in Myanmar

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This is a list of mosques in Myanmar.

Regions

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Yangon Region

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Notable Mosques in Yangon[1]
Name Location Year established Affiliation Notes Ref
Surti Sunni Jameh Mosque Sule Pagoda Road, Downtown Yangon 1920 Bohra Muslims
Bengali Sunni Jameh Mosque Sule Pagoda Road, Yangon 1920 Bengali Muslim
Kawthar Mosque Botahtaung Township 20th century Indian Muslim
Cholia Jameh Mosque Yangon (Downtown) early 20th century
Kamanyut Jameh Mosque Kamayut Township 20th century Sunni

Mandalay Region

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Main article: List of Masjids in Mandalay

Sagaing Region

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Notable Mosques in Sagaing Region, Myanmar
Name Location Year / Period Notes Source
Gattan Mosque Sagaing town, Sagaing Region 1902 Commissioned by a Major in the Burma Military Police; damaged in the March 28, 2025 earthquake; now sealed off amid ownership dispute. [2]
Myodaw Mosque Sagaing town Collapsed during the March 28, 2025 earthquake, one of three mosques that caused over 200 fatalities. [3]
Myoma Mosque Sagaing town Collapsed during the March 28, 2025 earthquake; reportedly hundreds died, including over 170 close contacts of one imam. [4][5]
Masjid Jamae (Sagaing) Sagaing town Collapsed in the March 28, 2025 earthquake, part of the trio of mosques with mass casualties. [3]
Moekya Mosque (also Moekya/Moekya Mosque) Sagaing town Collapsed in the same earthquake alongside Myodaw and Myoma; part of rescue and relief concerns. [4]

Other Mosques

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  • Amarapura Mosque
  • Jamei Mosque

Bago Region

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Notable Mosques in Bago Region, Myanmar
Name Images Location Notes
Kandaw Mosque [6] In Taungoo Township Partially collapsed during the March 2025 earthquake, resulting in fatalities during Friday prayers.
Nyaung Lay Pin Elder Mosque Nyaunglebin Township 651-1 Located on Rail Station Street.
Small Mosque Nyaunglebin Township 878-1 Situated on Bogyoke Lan.
Mosque in Thuye Tha Mein Village[7][8] Waw Township 1080-1 Reportedly destroyed in 2016 during communal violence; incident highlighted by human rights organizations.
Cho Lee Yar Mosque Letpadan Township 1389-1 Active mosque.
Zigone Masjid Zigon Township 1598-1 Local mosque.
Mosque and madrasa in Tha Yel Tha Mein village[9] Tha Yel Tha Mein (Waw Township), Bago Region Attacked and demolished along with a madrasa under construction in June 2016.
Mosque, cemetery, and school in Waw Township[10] Waw Township, Bago Region Mosque, cemetery, and Muslim school destroyed following mob violence in June 2016.

Other Mosques

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  • Mahar Myaing Mosque — Bago Township, Bago Region
  • Butar Jamay Masjid — Bago Township, Bago Region
  • Pun Hlaing Mosque — Bago Township, Bago Region
  • Street 5th Mosque — Bago Township, Bago Region
  • Bago Dargah Mosque — Bago Township, Bago Region
  • Kan Daw Mosque — Taungoo Township, Bago Region

Ayeyarwady Region

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Name Location Notes Ref
Masjid Pathein Pathein Township, Pathein District
Sunni Jame Masjid Kyaunggon Township

Magway Region

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Name Location Notes Ref
Myoma Mosque Ward No.9,

Chauk Township

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Mingalar Jama Mosque Ward No.11 of Chauk Township [11][12]

Tanintharyi Region

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State

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Kachin State

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Kayah State

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Kayin State

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Mon State

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Rakhine State[13]

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Shan State

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Name Image Location Notes Ref
Taunggyi mosques 1. Taunggyi downtown, 2. Southern Taunggyi Sunni Jameh Mosques
Aungban mosques 1. Ward (1) mosque,
2. Yawer Mon Tar mosque
Kalaw mosque Kalaw Sunni Jameh Mosque
Pinlaung mosque
Jameh Mosque Pinlaung
 Pinlaung

Union Territory

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Naypyidaw Union Territory

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References

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  1. ^ Berlie, Jean A. (2008). The Burmanization of Myanmar's Muslims. White Lotus Press. pp. 123–6. ISBN 978-974-480-126-5.
  2. ^ Irrawaddy, The (2025-05-30). "Myanmar Police Seize Historic Sagaing Mosque in Ownership Dispute". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  3. ^ a b Editor, English (2025-03-31). "Over 200 bodies recovered from three mosques in Sagaing Region unable to receive traditional Islamic burial". DVB. Retrieved 2025-08-24. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ a b "Myanmar Earthquake Leaves Hundreds Dead, Mosques Collapsed During Ramadan Prayers". Thread Daily. 2 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Myanmar quake: Imam's grief for 170 killed as they prayed in Sagaing". www.bbc.com. 2025-04-02. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  6. ^ Ratcliffe, Rebecca (2025-03-31). "Aftermath of the Myanmar earthquake – a visual guide". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  7. ^ "Myanmar: Investigate violent destruction of mosque buildings". Amnesty International USA. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  8. ^ "Mosque Destroyed in Myanmar Village as Tensions Flare Between Muslims And Buddhists". Radio Free Asia. 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  9. ^ "Angry mob destroys mosque and madrasa in Bago Region". Coconuts Yangon. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  10. ^ "Mosque, Muslim cemetery, school destroyed in Myanmar". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  11. ^ a b "ချောက်မြို့က ၁၀ နှစ်ကျော် ပိတ်ထားသည့် ဗလီ ၂ ခုတွင် ပြန်လည်ဝတ်ပြုခွင့်ပေး". မကွေးတိုင်း၊ ချောက်မြို့၊ အမှတ် ၉ ရပ်ကွက်ရှိ မြို့မဗလီဝတ်ပြုကျောင်းနဲ့ အမှတ် ၁၁ ရပ်ကွက်ရှိ မင်္ဂလာဂျာမေ့ ဗလီ ဝတ်ပြုကျောင်း နှစ်ခုမှာ အစ္စလမ်ဘာသာဝင်တွေ ပြန်လည် ဝတ်ပြုခွင့်ကို မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရအ…. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  12. ^ a b "မကွေးမှာ ဗလီတချို့ ပြန်ဖွင့်ခွင့်ရတဲ့အကြောင်းအပါအဝင် မနက်ခင်းသတင်းများ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  13. ^ Berlie, Jean A. (2008). The Burmanization of Myanmar's Muslims. White Lotus Press. pp. 129–132. ISBN 978-974-480-126-5.
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