The Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture announced twenty-two (22) mosques shortlisted of the 4th cycle (2020-2023), this announcement has been issued after reviewal sessions of the international jury that were held during the month of February 2022 headed by the architect Rasem Badran ( Jordan) and presence of members of the committee: architect Emre Arolat (Turkey), architect Kashif Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Dr. Ahmed Mustafa, a specialist in Islamic art (UK) and Dr. Sari Hanafi, a specialist in Islamic sociology (France). It’s worthwhile to mention that the international jury has reviewed two hundred (200) mosques of the longlist from all over the world, which were reviewed over two full days.
The shortlisted mosques representing seventeen countries from 4 continents, which are respectively fourteen mosques from Asia, four mosques from Africa, three mosques from Europe and one mosque from Australia. However, the selection of those mosques came based on six conditions developed by the Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture, which is the relationship of the mosque with the neighborhood, the modernity of the architectural design of mosques, new forms, in addition to creative solutions in construction systems, green solutions that are environmentally friendly, and finally the economic cost.
And according to the internal regulations of the award, the 22 shortlisted projects should be reviewed by experienced technical reviewers, in a process to prepare full and detailed architectural reports, in order to re-present them in details to the international jury during its next second meeting in November 2022 in Kuwait aside of the 3rd International Conference on Mosque Architecture.
