Mobile Mosques
This Article is not a scientific article, but a reflection of the meditation and observation of the concurrent scene. Yet, it is a continuum of the mosques and Utopian spaces concerned articles. Utopian spaces are always related to humans and their spontaneous needs.
AFAMA Announces the International Master Jury for the Third Cycle of the Award (2017 – 2020)
Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture, announces the methodology, names and qualifications of the members of the International Master Jury for the third cycle of AFAMA in a multi-media press publication.The CEO of the Award Abdullah Al Fozan has outlined the objectives of the Award in consideration of Mosque Architecture development. Besides, he has provided the architectural and technical informational requisites that could help those working on Mosque Architecture worldwide, to come up with artistic, effective and sustainable architectural solutions
The Great Mosque in Ezbet Al Nakhl (Village of the Date Palms)
It is allocated opposite to the Metro railway station in Ezbet Al Nakhl district, Cairo. It is entitled as The Great Mosque. The mosque has been a charity work, where the beneficiaries of the district and their neighborhood started collecting donations since 2004, to get it funded, yet the quest is still on. The design work progress has lasted from 2009 till 2017.
Abdullatif Al-Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture Participates in a Workshop on Charity Work for Mosque Architecture
The General Secretary of Abdullatif Al-Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture participated in the workshop about charitable activities in mosque architecture. The workshop has been attended by various stakeholders and related charitable entities.
The Abdullatif Al-Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture Participates in the Partners Forum at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris
The Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture carries a message of civilization and aesthetics from the Houses of God to the world The General Secretary of Abdullatif Al-Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture received an invitation from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to attend the Partners Forum at the UNESCO headquarters […]
Abdullatif Al-Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture Cooperation with the Center for the Studies of Earth Architecture ” CRAterre ” in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Grenoble, France
Developing architectural guides and specifications for local mosques in Central and West Africa. Dr. Mashary Al-Naim, Secretary-General of the Abdullatif Al-Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture, visited the headquarters of the Center for Earth Architecture (CRAterre) in Grenoble, France. Throughout this visit, Dr. Al Naim briefed the general director of about the Award’s objectives and its […]
” Mosqpedia” is the World’s Largest Architectural Encyclopedia for Mosques, launched by Al Fozan Award on the Electronic Platform
The Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture will provide several scientific and professional portals The Abdullatif Al-Fozan Mosque Architecture Award has the intention to serve as an international expertise center for mosque architecture. It will contain the world’s largest architectural database for mosque architecture. Three mega projects are in process of implementation now, those […]
Preliminary Critique of Abdulatif Al Fozan Award Candidate Mosques (2) – Egypt and North Africa
Admittedly, the visual identity of mosque allocations has imprisoned any ideological or professional renovation attempt. This discrepancy stood beyond the designers’ intuition, to get over the claimed sanctity of the historically enforced identity. Therefore, the renovation wave has targeted these areas in the first place.
Common Architectural Approaches to Mosque Architecture (1) The Historicist Culture of Practice
The Mosque is a rich building typology with a great history, long architectural traditions and a wide potential for expression and symbolism. Contemporary mosque architecture shows an ongoing competition over representing this richness, producing varied outcomes that reflect the different cultures of architectural practice behind their conception. The term ‘culture of practice’ refers to the set of foundational ideological beliefs that inform the path of a certain mode of practice in architecture which in turn distinguish it from other modes of practice.
Preliminary Critique of Abdulatif Al Fozan Award Candidate Mosques (1)
The conception of Mosque Architecture is of a trilateral controversy. First, mosques are of cultural and functional worth. They are part and parcel of Muslims’ daily life, for they are visited five times a day. Thus, mosques could not be regarded; as mere houses of worship, but educational, cultural and social institutes. These are the grounds of their validity, and multiplication till the time being. Second, the named field did not witness any developmental progression throughout the late two centuries.
