There are a total of 1,227 mosques, including heritage mosques, in different parts of the country, some of them built by the government and some by Qatari philanthropists. 

Less than half of these mosques (536 mosques) host Friday sermons and the remaining 691 mosques are used for daily prayers, said Mohammed Al Kahtani head of the Registration and Documentation Section at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.  

Al Kahtani says that Qatar had 50 heritage mosques, with unique materials used to construct them. Only half of them are used for prayers. Cover photo by Takeshi M. Fukushima