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Minor Mosque- Uzbekistan
Date Added
08/07/2019
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Architecture
Description
Architect: “Karat Project”- Its construction was financed by the state budget and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in Uzbekistan.
Location: Tashkent- Uzbekistan.
Worshippers: 7000 people.
Year: 2014.
Minor mosque is characterized by its Italian white marble finishing. It shines under the clear sky and its turquoise dome seems to be vanishing in the sky. It is divided to the open front part with terraces, and big round hall with gold plated mihrab (a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the Qibla) adorned with writings from Koran. Minor Mosque has been constructed on a shore of water tunnel and green areas, allowing visitors to view beautiful landscapes in the surrounding. It was built in the traditional eastern and Uzbek style, has two minarets and dome of sky-blue. Its interior is decorated in the style of "naqsh" and mihrab is decorated by sayings from the Koran, and hadiths "sayings of the Prophet Muhammad".