No-Gonbad Mosque (Mosque of Nine Cupolas) also known as Khoja Piada or Masjid-e Haji Piyada (Mosque of the Walking Pilgrim) Dates to the early 9th Century A.D. Earliest Islamic monument identified in Afghanistan, has influences from the Achaemenid, Graeco-Bactrain and Kushano-Sasanian periods, few dateable examples of mosque architecture exist anywhere in the world form this early periodes) Jane Sweeney