# MosqueList — AI & Search Indexing

MosqueList (https://mosquelist.com) is a travel and discovery site for the world's most significant and beautiful mosques. It helps users explore, plan, and track spiritual journeys and build a personal "bucket list" of mosques to visit.

## What this site offers
- **Explore**: Searchable catalog of 199+ mosques with details (location, capacity, history, architecture, visitor info, coordinates).
- **Curated lists**: Holy Sites (Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem), biggest mosques, Shia mosques & Shia shrines, by country (Turkey, UAE, Malaysia, etc.), by era and style.
- **Map**: Interactive map of mosque locations worldwide.
- **Timeline**: Key dates in mosque history and construction.
- **Islamic History**: 1,400+ years of context—caliphates, expansion, architecture milestones.
- **Blog**: Fact-checked articles on mosque visits, etiquette, architecture, funding, wudu, prayer, and spiritual travel.
- **Guides**: Travel guide and visitor tips for mosque visits.
- **Glossary**: Islamic and mosque-related terms.
- **My List (bucket list)**: Users can add mosques to a personal list and reorder; stored in browser.
- **Contributing**: How to add or update mosque data.

## Key pages
- Home: https://mosquelist.com
- Explore (all mosques): https://mosquelist.com/explore
- Map: https://mosquelist.com/map
- Lists: https://mosquelist.com/lists
- List detail: https://mosquelist.com/lists/{slug}
- Timeline: https://mosquelist.com/timeline
- Islamic History: https://mosquelist.com/islamic-history
- Blog: https://mosquelist.com/blog
- Blog article: https://mosquelist.com/blog/{slug}
- Travel guide: https://mosquelist.com/guides/travel
- Visitor tips: https://mosquelist.com/guides/visitor-tips
- Glossary: https://mosquelist.com/glossary
- Contributing: https://mosquelist.com/contributing
- About: https://mosquelist.com/about
- Individual mosque: https://mosquelist.com/mosque/{id}

## Structured data (JSON-LD)
- **Homepage**: WebSite schema with SearchAction (search explore?q=).
- **Mosque pages**: Place schema with name, description, address, geo (GeoCoordinates), image, amenityFeature.
- **List pages**: ItemList schema with ListItem entries linking to Place pages.
- **Blog articles**: BlogPosting schema with headline, description, image, url, publisher.

## Publisher
ummah.build