The 5th cycle of Abdullatif Alfozan Award for Mosque Architecture (2023-2026) has officially started on April 1st, 2023.
Living Mosque will be the main theme. The intention of this cycle is retrieving the original function of mosques not only as a place for worship but also as an urban pivot, in which strongly connected to societies daily activities.
Nomination process, pick your mosque and nominate it now.
Furthermore, these mosques are a real life incarnation of the mosque architecture conception in the twenty first century, which are targeted for nomination. En masse, all mosques are unexceptionally approved; albeit, nomination is based on the following mosque typologies :
- Central Mosques
- Nieghborhood Mosques
- Friday (Juma’) Mosques
- Prayer Halls (Musalla) new
- Central Mosques new
Nomination’s general conditions
Nominate
a mosque
On March 14, 2018, Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture has announced the beginning of the third cycle’s nomination
which dedicated to mosques built in the Muslim countries. Nevertheless, unique mosques in terms of functionality, environment-friendly, spirituality, and strong integration with the urban context are nominated for this cycle and the winning projects would represent ‘mosques of the twenty-first century’ with high respect to the mosque identity.
Nominated mosques were divided into three categories; Central Mosques, Jumaa Mosques, and Local Mosques. In January 2019, jurors have met at the International Union of Architects in Paris for 3 days The awarded projects came out of 27 mosques on the shortlist that competed for the award out of a total of 201 mosques from the Islamic world that applied for the award from 43 countries on three continents.
Any Mosques completed in Saudi Arabia since 1970 was eligible for nomination for the award’s first cycle.
The award assessment of projects submitted emphasized issues relating to their architectural composition as expressed through form, space and surface articulation; the construction technologies they employed ; the sense of spirituality that their architecture inspired ; how the architect embraced the act of prayer ; and the influential relationship the mosque had with its immediate surroundings.
Explore the First Cycle Awarded Mosques
Dharhan, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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1st Cycle Jurors
Dr. Saleh Alhazlool
Member
Dr. Imbrahim Alnaimi
Member
Dr. Hasan-Udeen Khan
Dr. Glen Laurie
Eng. Charles Korea
Eng. Sahal Alhayari
In February 2014, the award announced the beginning of its second cycle to cover the mosques within the Gulf countries
with an approach that draws inspiration from local traditional historical contexts, and adheres rather faithfully to these contexts’ architectural languages and principles, but also update them to address contemporary functional needs and visual sensibilities. Nominated mosques were divided into three categories; Central Mosques, Jumaa Mosques, and Local Mosques.
Explore the Second Cycle Awarded Mosques
Explore the Short List
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Doha, Qatar
Nizwa, Oma
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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2nd cycle jurors
Dr. Khalid Omar Azzam
Dr. Hasan-Udeen Khan
Ken Yeang
Dr. Suha Ozkan
Dr. Mohammad Al-Asad
On March 14, 2018, Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture has announced the beginning of the third cycle’s nomination
which dedicated to mosques built in the Muslim countries. Nevertheless, unique mosques in terms of functionality, environment-friendly, spirituality, and strong integration with the urban context are nominated for this cycle and the winning projects would represent ‘mosques of the twenty-first century’ with high respect to the mosque identity.
Nominated mosques were divided into three categories; Central Mosques, Jumaa Mosques, and Local Mosques. In January 2019, jurors have met at the International Union of Architects in Paris for 3 days The awarded projects came out of 27 mosques on the shortlist that competed for the award out of a total of 201 mosques from the Islamic world that applied for the award from 43 countries on three continents.
Explore the Third Cycle Awarded Mosques
Moukhtara, Lebanon
Basuna, Sohag, Egypt,
Padang - Indonesia
Timbuktu, Mali
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Istanbul, Turkey
Keraniganj – Bangladesh
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Chechnya Republic – Russia
Tehran- Iran
Central Java – Indonesia
Tashkent City – Uzbekistan
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3rd cycle Jurors
Alpha Diop
Dalila
Efim A.Rezvan
Elissa Valero
Prince Sultan Bin Fahad Bin Nasser
Mona Khazindar
Taleb Rifai
Explore the winning mosque architects of the Third cycle
Name of Architect
Winner of “Tupalla Mosque”
Name of Architect
Winner of “Ljubljana Mosque”
Name of Architect
Winner of “Dogramacizade Ali Pasa Mosque”
Name of Architect
Winner of “Abu Bakr Mosque”
Name of Architect
Winner of “Australian Islamic Centre”
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On January 1, 2020, Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture has announced the beginning of the fourth cycle’s nomination which dedicated to mosques built in the Muslim countries.
Nevertheless, unique mosques in terms of functionality, environment-friendly, spirituality, and strong integration with the urban context are nominated for this cycle and the winning projects would represent ‘mosques of the twenty-first century’ with high respect to the mosque identity.
Over 200 mosques were submitted from across the world, narrowed down to a shortlist of 22 projects from, has announced its 5 winning projects hailing from Australia, Turkey, Serbia, Slovenia, and Mozambique.
Explore the Fourth Cycle Awarded Mosques
Tupalla village, Medvegja, Serbia
Ankara- Turkey
Mozambique
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Australia
Mozambique
Explore the winning mosque architects of the Fourth cycle
Name of Architect
Winner of “Tupalla Mosque”
Name of Architect
Winner of “Ljubljana Mosque”
Name of Architect
Winner of “Dogramacizade Ali Pasa Mosque”
Name of Architect
Winner of “Abu Bakr Mosque”
Name of Architect
Winner of “Australian Islamic Centre”
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Indonesia
Indonesia
Narayanganj, Dhaka
Malaysia
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4th cycle Jurors
Ahmad Mostapha
Emre Arolat
Kashif Chowdhury
Rasem Badran
