Mosque (Civ6)

Mosque
Introduced in Civilization VI
Cost
Production	190
Production	190
Requires
District	Holy Site
Infrastructure	Temple
Effects
+3 Faith Missionaries and Apostles get 1 extra Spread Religion charge.

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The Mosque is an advanced religious building in Civilization VI. It is built in the Holy Site district and requires a Temple. It may also be purchased with Faith.

• Effects:
  • Requires the Mosque Worship Belief to be constructed.
  • +3 Faith; x2 with Simultaneum Policy
  • +1 Citizen slot
  • Missionaries and Apostles purchased in this Holy Site gain 1 additional "Spread Religion" charge

Strategy

The Mosque can help speed up the spread of your religion, making it very useful when pursuing a Religious Victory. The main advantage of it is that you only really need one. That makes it a much cheaper investment than all the other religious buildings (which are frankly expensive for what you get) though later in the game you may want to dot a few more around the globe.

Civilopedia entry

There are strict requirements and standards in Islamic fiqh for a building to be a mosque, and those places of worship that do not meet those are merely musallas (“gathering houses”). Under Sharia law, once a mosque is formally designated as a holy place, it remains that until the Day of Judgment (Yawm ad-Din). The oldest and largest mosque in the world, the Masjid al-Haram, was built in the city of Mecca around 638 AD; it encompasses the holy site of the Kaaba, the most sacred of all locations in Islam. The Prophet himself established other mosques, notably that at Medina. From there, mosques – with their distinctive domes, minarets and prayer halls overseen by an imam – were carried by the swords of the faithful across Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa during the 7th Century. The first mosque built in the Far East – that at Xi’an – reportedly dates to the mid-8th Century. A site of prayer, charity and learning, the mosque is the physical heart of Islamic civilization.