Mosques

Prior to the usage of the common Islamic mosque architecture, which can also be seen in Arabia
and modern architecture, the vernacular mosques of the Philippines used to be the hut-style and the
pagoda-style, which were very common until the late 19th century. Most of the mosques in the
Philippines today have common Islamic architectures imported from Arabia merged with modern
style, though some vernacular pagoda-style mosques can still be seen in Mindanao such as the
Masjid Datu Untong Balabaran of Taviran in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao. There have been
proposals to put the Heritage Mosques of the Philippines into the Philippine tentative list
for UNESCO World Heritage Site declaration in the future. The proposals made were to input the
historic mosques of the Philippines (mosque in Simunul), to input the vernacular mosques of the
Philippines (langga/rangga-style and pagoda-style mosques), or to combine both and input them in
the tentative list of UNESCO.