Travel & Places · Emoji 1.0
🕌Mosque Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 🕌 emoji, they're referencing mosques, Islam, or wanting to express support for the Muslim faith. It’s a quick way to show you’re aware of and respect their background.
The 🕌 emoji represents a mosque.
- Unicode
- U+1F54C
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :mosque:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🕌 Mosque emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as islam emoji, muslim emoji.
02 — Platforms
Mosque emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the mosque has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Mosque emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :mosque:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the mosque, code point U+1F54C.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🕌 Mosque emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F54C when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Mosque emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Mosque emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mosque for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🕌 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What 🕌 means in other countries
Represents Islam broadly and is used respectfully in daily messaging, but it has also shown up in xenophobic online rhetoric.
Everyday shorthand for prayer times, mosque visits, or Friday plans.
Occasionally weaponized in anti-immigration commentary, unrelated to its everyday use.
Before you send it: Sending it in personal or event context is completely normal; it’s political framing that turns it sour, not the symbol itself.
09 — Apps
What 🕌 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the mosque lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🕌 Mosque emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the mosque has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F54C never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Mosque was approved as U+1F54C and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🕌 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ