List of mosque standoffs

This list of mosque standoffs consists of events in which authority figures surrounded a mosque occupied by resisters.

1979

 * Grand Mosque Seizure, a 20 November 1979 armed takeover by messianic Islamic dissidents of the Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, eventually put down by Saudi Arabian forces.

2007

 * 2007 Maldives mosque standoff
 * Siege of Lal Masjid, Pakistan