International Journal of Academic and Applied Research (IJAAR)   Year: 2024 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 5 | Page No.: 49-64 Using GIS to Analyze the Distribution of Mosques in the Northern Area of Riyadh City Download PDF Omer Alrwais, Areej AlHassan, Asma AlDausari, Reem AlSalhi, Ghada AlQahtani and Noura AlArifi Abstract: This paper aims to study the distribution of mosques in the northern area of Riyadh city in Saudi Arabia in order to uncover the aspects of imbalance distribution of mosques over the 29 districts of the study area in addition to assess the extent of compatibility between the number of mosques in each district and the density of population residing in it. The used dataset is built up of mainly three datasets for mosques, districts and population covering the study area. This research has utilized QGIS software and applied the Point-to-Polygon overlay to locate the mosques in their corresponding districts and three types of analysis were applied which are the Average Nearest Neighbor, Heat Map, and Graduated Symbology Classification with the aim of exploring the clustering patterns of mosques as well as classifying the districts based on the density of mosques relative to population. The study concludes that there is a spatial disparity in the distribution of mosques, mainly in term of their density, in the different districts due to the variation in population. Moreover, a notable inequality of the distribution of mosques with respect to the population has been found.