This ancient mosque, locally known as Barwada Masjid or Juni (Old) Masjid, was built during this period and is one of the oldest mosques in India. Later, the Prophet Muhammad received wahy (revelation), commanding him to change the orientation point from Jerusalem in the north to Mecca in the south. The first companions of the Prophet Muhammad landed at Ghogha around the early seventh century and built a mosque here. This was the time when the Qibla (direction to be faced while praying salah) of the Muslims was Baitul Muqaddas (Jerusalem) instead of Mecca. For a brief period of 16 to 17 months, between 622 and 624 A.D., after the Hegira (migration) to Medina, the Prophet Muhammad and his believers faced Jerusalem while praying salah between 610 to 623 A.D. This ancient mosque, locally known as Barwada Masjid or Juni (Old) Masjid, was built during this period and is one of the oldest mosques in India.[7] Later, the Prophet Muhammad received wahy (revelation), commanding him to change the orientation point from Jerusalem in the north to Mecca in the south. This mosque, therefore, predates all the other mosques in India whose mihrab face Mecca. It also bears the oldest Arabic inscription in India. The masjid falls under the care of Barwada Jamat.

The Juni Masjid or Barwada Masjid, on the northern edge of the ancient port town of Ghogha, on the Gulf of Khambhat, is still in its original form, albeit in a dilapidated condition. Like the Cheraman mosque, the Barwada mosque (Barwada Masjid in Gujarati translates as outsiders' or foreigners' mosque) is not a listed monument and is not covered by any conservation plan. No information is available on when it was built and who built it, but some historians contend that it predates the Cheraman Mosque, which was built in AD 629, and the Palaiya Jumma Palli, or The Old Jumma Masjid of Kilakaria in Tamil Nadu, which was constructed between AD 628 and 630. The reason to consider this 15x40 foot structure as the oldest mosque in India lies in the Muslim custom of offering namaz during the times of Prophet Muhammad. One tradition says that Muslims prayed to face `Baitul Muqaddas' in Jerusalem for the first 13 years of Islam ¬ from AD 610 to 623. Another tradition limits the period of maintaining the qibla -the direction Muslims face during salat -towards Jerusalem to the 17 months after the Hijra, the Prophet's exodus from Mecca to Medina. In AD 623, while offering namaz in Medina, Muhammad had a revelation and declared that Muslims were to face the Kaaba during prayers. From then on, Muslims stopped facing Jerusalem, and the qibla has faced the Kaaba. At the Barwada mosque in Ghogha, the qibla, indicated by the position of the mihrab (a semi-circular niche in the wall facing which prayers are offered), is towards Jerusalem, an angle nearly 20 degrees north of the qibla towards Mecca. This reflects the fact that this stone structure must have been erected much before the Prophet's declaration that the direction to the Kaaba be treated as the qibla. The historical mosques in Kerala and Tamil Nadu have their qibla towards the Kaaba. Compass readings taken at the site put the heading of the mihrab from the entrance at about 295°NW. As at a newer mosque in the same neighborhood, the heading towards the Kaaba is about 275°NW.