Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam/Mosques task force

This is a task force of WikiProject Islam.

Mission objectives

To organise all mosque articles in a consistent fashion. More precisely:

Agree on a consistent format for mosque article titles.
Include basic info. on a mosque at the start of each mosque article (usually in a template - maybe infobox?). This has already been done for many mosque articles, but the task is by no means complete.
{{WikiProject Islam|class=|importance=|Mosques=yes}} is added to the top of the talk pages of any articles relevant to this project. This will make them appear on the Category:Mosques task force articles.

Top of my head generic tasks

Populate the subcategories of Category:Mosque-related articles by quality with all mosque related articles by adding the above talk page template.
Add basic info. templates to all mosque articles.
Update mosque categories.
Standardise mosque article titles (e.g. Masjid al-Haram and Al-Aqsa Mosque appear inconsistent); there may be issues here with the most common English term for any given mosque.
Create 'Mosques in ...(name of country)' templates for each country.
Add quality and importance notices on talk pages of all mosque articles (not just those which describe the mosque, but any article whose main content is about mosques - e.g. Siege of Lal Masjid); update the corresponding Mosque articles by quality table. See here for assistance.
Get a photo of each mosque for which there is an article - I know this isn't necessarily very easy.

Specific tasks

Page moves

Capitalise the m in mosque in the following: TBA

Categories still to be analysed

Make sure that all articles in the following categories have WPISLAM tags in their talk pages:

Category:Mosques in Iraq - also need to update the Iraq mosques template.

Mosque by country templates

Although all countries may not have mosques (yet), the following are templates that potentially need to be created:

Template:Mosques in Andorra
Template:Mosques in Angola
Template:Mosques in Antigua and Barbuda
Template:Mosques in the Bahamas
Template:Mosques in Belarus
Template:Mosques in Belize
Template:Mosques in Bhutan
Template:Mosques in Bolivia
Template:Mosques in Botswana
Template:Mosques in Brazil
Template:Mosques in Burma
Template:Mosques in Burundi
Template:Mosques in Burkina Faso
Template:Mosques in Cameroon
Template:Mosques in Cape Verde
Template:Mosques in the Central African Republic
Template:Mosques in Chad
Template:Mosques in Chile
Template:Mosques in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Template:Mosques in Comoros
Template:Mosques in DR Congo
Template:Mosques in the Republic of the Congo
Template:Mosques in Costa Rica
Template:Mosques in Côte d'Ivoire
Template:Mosques in Croatia
Template:Mosques in Cuba
Template:Mosques in the Czech Republic
Template:Mosques in Dominica
Template:Mosques in the Dominican Republic
Template:Mosques in East Timor
Template:Mosques in Ecuador
Template:Mosques in El Salvador
Template:Mosques in Equatorial Guinea
Template:Mosques in Estonia
Template:Mosques in Ethiopia
Template:Mosques in Fiji
Template:Mosques in Finland
Template:Mosques in Gabon
Template:Mosques in Gambia
Template:Mosques in Grenada
Template:Mosques in Guinea-Bissau
Template:Mosques in Honduras
Template:Mosques in Iceland
Template:Mosques in Jamaica
Template:Mosques in Kenya
Template:Mosques in Kiribati
Template:Mosques in Kyrgyzstan
Template:Mosques in Latvia
Template:Mosques in Lesotho
Template:Mosques in Liberia
Template:Mosques in Liechtenstein
Template:Mosques in Luxembourg
Template:Mosques in Madagascar
Template:Mosques in Malawi
Template:Mosques in Malta
Template:Mosques in the Marshall Islands
Template:Mosques in Mauritius
Template:Mosques in Mexico
Template:Mosques in Micronesia
Template:Mosques in Moldova
Template:Mosques in Monaco
Template:Mosques in Mongolia
Template:Mosques in Mozambique
Template:Mosques in Namibia
Template:Mosques in Nauru
Template:Mosques in New Zealand
Template:Mosques in Nicaragua
Template:Mosques in North Korea
Template:Mosques in Paraguay
Template:Mosques in Senegal
Template:Mosques in Sudan
Template:Mosques in Suriname

Templates needing updating:

Categories needed

Category:Mosques in Andorra
Category:Mosques in Angola
Category:Mosques in Gambia
Category:Mosques in Paraguay

Articles needed

Unresolved issues and standardisation

There are presently many inconsistencies in mosque articles, many concerning standardisation.

If not at the beginning of a sentence, should al- or Al- be used (as in al-Aqsa)?

Should all known mosques be listed or just the notable ones ? I prefer the former option, but I can see that articles on local, small mosques will probably be quite stubby.

Change name of Masjid-e-Aqsa (Not The Aqsa) - this one is an Ahmadiyyah mosque in Pakistan! - to something else ?

Should Benposta be in the category Category:Mosques in Spain ? I think it is a very tenuous link to the category in question.

Should the (distinct!) articles Shahjahan Mosque and Shah Jahan Mosque be renamed to avoid confusion ?

Some mosques use Mosque in their proper noun name and some use Masjid

Membership and duties

Please list below your username with the usual four tildes and what you would like to help out with (e.g., adding basic info. templates to all Uzbekistan mosques, or updating a category).

MP ^{(talk•contribs)} 15:25, 6 August 2008 (UTC) — everything at the moment.[reply]
Bless sins (talk) 03:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC) — I am at your service.[reply]
Yenemus (talk) 11:32, 20 July 2009 (UTC) — I'd be glad to help out with templates and article standardisation. At the moment, I'm trying to standardise the "Mosques in (country)" templates (e.g. see Template:Mosques in Bangladesh and Template:Mosques in Sweden); I've also been thinking that a Mosque infobox would be a good idea, maybe we could get together and design one? Oh, also, I made this "list of the largest mosques in the world" template, with information from this article, so if you find a good place to put it please feel free.[reply]
Al Ameer son (talk) 20:49, 20 July 2009 (UTC) —Worked extensively with the mosques of Palestine and Israel (including bringing al-Aqsa Mosque and the Great Mosque of Gaza to a GA rating).[reply]
— Melofors T C 21:59, 11 March 2020 (UTC) — I work extensively on Islam-related articles in the United States, created several Islam-related articles, templates, and categories for the United States. Plan to fix several messy articles.[reply]
Chongkian — write new mosque articles, add infobox, add coordinate, add proper categorization, update navbox template, add wikiprojects, rate wikiprojects, tidy up sequence and naming of article contents, re-write things in a more objective manner, add defaultsort, add short description, write verified facts and only verified facts.
Ahendra (talk) 17:15, 23 November 2021 (UTC) - In Sha Allah will help to improve articles about mosques[reply]
Rangasyd (talk) 01:42, 18 February 2025 (UTC) — Standardisation of infoboxes, using {{Infobox religious building}}, lead, See also, templates, and categories. Working across all countries and continents. Templates for Mosques in xxx countries have been completed, where applicable. The use of a standard Green background with white text has been adopted, in the same way that Roman Catholic churches, Presbyterian churches, Synagogues, etc., have colored navboxes.[reply]

Standards

A typical mosque article should (?) have the following information as an absolute minimum:

A template giving info. about the mosque. I think there are presently 3 such templates that are used in mosque articles: Template:Asian mosques, Template:Chinese mosques and Template:Infobox religious building. I believe the last one is used most often (this infobox covers many things).

I recently created a specific infobox for mosques. Please check it out at Template:Infobox mosque and see if you want to use it to standardise all mosque pages. I've already implemented it into the Masjid al-Haram and London Central Mosque articles. --Yenemus (talk) 19:36, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think its better to keep the old one (Template:Infobox religious building) since its more flexible. If you change all the mosque pages over to this new template, you'd be doing alot of unnecessary work just for the 'Leadership' section, which in most cases you won't even be able to fill in. ~ Toushiro 「話」 04:58, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply, and I partly agree with you but I just think it needs some adjustments and is still a good idea. The religious building infobox is far too vague and it seems redundant to mention "Architectural type: mosque" and "Religious affilition: Islam" all the time when the word Mosque is in the page title. This is being discussed further at the talk page. --Yenemus (talk) 09:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please use {{Infobox religious building}} at all times.

The religious_affiliation should be Islam, or, where known, the tradition of Islam (e.g. Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, Shia (Twelver), etc.), and always linked, that impacts on the color of the infobox. Regrettably, Sufism does not populate the color; so please use Sunni, and then add Sufism as the sect.
- Where the building was a mosque, and is no longer a mosque (e.g. used for other purposes or destroyed / demolished, or abandoned / in a ruinous state, then, please add the word (former) after the linked religious_affiliation to change the color of the infobox from green to grey.
The status should reflect the use of the building as a mosque, Friday mosque, Dargah, Sufi shrine, etc.
The functional_status should reflect whether the mosque is currently used for worship (Active), or not longer used for worship (Abandoned, Closed, Ruinous state, Destroyed, Preserved (as a museum), Archaeological site, Under construction, etc.)
The architecture_type should reflect the design of the building that, in the majority of cases, will be Mosque architecture (not mosque), although, the building may have been initially designed for another purpose (Church, Hindu temple, etc.).
Where the building has been listed as an historic building, etc., under module, {{Infobox historic site}} should be embedded. There are many in India that are are good examples, such as Baba Lului's Mosque.

Rangasyd (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Place of mosque (city/town etc. + country) (geographic coordinates too).

The country should always be a seperate line, and linked; and not added to the location line.
Generally speaking, only the location and country should be used. Please ignore territory, state, municipality, region, etc

Rangasyd (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Architecture (minarets, style etc.)

Add categories for Mosque buildings with domes by country, where volume is justified, otherwise, use by continent, where volume is not justified.
Add categories for Mosque buildings with minarets by country, where volume is justified, otherwise, use by continent, where volume is not justified.
Add categories for Mosques by architectural design by design category, difusing the use of the generic category of Islamic architecture as much as much as possible.
Add categories for Mosques by century by country, where volume is justified, otherwise, use by continent, where volume is not justified. Categories tend to diffuse from the 12th century, by continent; and from the 14th century by country.
Please do not use the initials AD, as this is linked to Christianity. Instead, please use CE. Better still, and where known, use {{AH}} for Hijri years or {{BH}} when the date is before AH 1 (622/623 CE).

Rangasyd (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A mosque by country template at the bottom of the page (e.g. Template:Mosques in Egypt).

Where volume is justified.

Rangasyd (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment and quality

Categories checked

The following categories have been analysed to check that all mosque articles in that category have the WPISLAM tag on their talk pages. Please add to this list if ( :) ) and once you have checked. Please also update the Quality and Importance table above: