Great Mosque of Algiers (Djamaa el Djazair)
Algiers, Algeria
The Great Mosque of Algiers is a functioning mosque and entry to the grounds is free;
1 ticket or tour
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Tallest temples and pagodas in the world
Height here means the tallest part of each site, and that part varies: a minaret, a pagoda, a statue, a temple tower or, for the Potala Palace, the whole building measured above its hill. Most of the top entries are recent. The Great Mosque of Algiers, opened in 2019, has the tallest minaret in the world at 265 metres, ahead of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca at 210, and the Tianning Pagoda in Changzhou, finished in 2007, stands 153.79 metres.
Hassan II Mosque
Casablanca, Morocco
The Hassan II Mosque is one of the very few mosques in Morocco that non-Muslims may enter, and the only way in is on…
12 tickets & tours
Tianning Temple and Pagoda, Changzhou
Changzhou, China
Tianning Temple is visited on an ordinary entry ticket bought at the gate or through Chinese ticketing apps, and in…
1 ticket or tour
Famen Temple
Baoji, China
Famen Temple stands in the countryside of Fufeng County, about 120 km west of Xi'an, and no ticket for the temple…
5 tickets & tours
Potala Palace
Lhasa, China
Visiting the Potala is shaped by the rules for foreign travel in Tibet rather than by the ticket itself.
1 ticket or tour
Putra Mosque (Masjid Putra)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Entry to the Putra Mosque is free, and there is nothing to book in advance.
No online ticket
Nanshan Temple, Sanya
Sanya, China
Nanshan Temple stands inside a large, fenced Buddhist cultural park on the coast west of Sanya, so the first thing to…
4 tickets & tours
Grand Çamlıca Mosque
Istanbul, Turkey
The Grand Çamlıca Mosque is a working place of worship and costs nothing to enter.
3 tickets & tours
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Entry to the mosque itself costs nothing. Visitors register for a free time slot through the mosque centre's…
18 tickets & tours
Wat Muang
Ang Thong, Thailand
Wat Muang is a large modern temple in the countryside of Ang Thong province, north of Ayutthaya, best known for its…
2 tickets & tours
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
Muscat, Oman
Visiting the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque costs nothing: non-Muslims walk in through the visitors'
4 tickets & tours
Mosque of Muhammad Ali (Alabaster Mosque)
Cairo, Egypt
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali stands inside the Citadel of Cairo, so there is no separate ticket for it: entry is covered…
No online ticket
Statues count too: the Guanyin at Nanshan Temple in Sanya is 108 metres and the seated Buddha of Wat Muang 92. For older structures, the Qutb Minar in Delhi, 72.5 metres and completed in the 13th century, the Koutoubia minaret in Marrakesh and the central tower of Angkor Wat are the ones to look at.