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Sancaklar Mosque

Buyukçekmece,
Turkey

Located in Buyukçekmece, a suburban neighborhood in the outskirts of Istanbul, aims to address the fundamental issues of designing a mosque by distancing itself from the current architectural discussions based on form and focusing solely on the essence of religious space.

EAA – Emre Arolat Architects
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Al-Isryad Mosque

Magelang City,
Indonesia

Al-Irsyad Mosque or Ridwan Kamil Mosque is a mosque located in Bandung, Indonesia. The mosque was built in 2009 and completed in 2010. The mosque is shaped as a cube, without a dome. The primary shape takes the form of a square, which seems the most efficient since Muslims pray in straight rows facing a specific direction or the Qiblah.The structural columns are arranged in such way that the façade seems like it is not supported by any frame.

Ridwan Kamil
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KAFD Grand Mosque

Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia

A landmark within a ‘forest’ of skyscrapers, the building represents the spiritual centre of the Master Plan and serves as the Juma’ah (Friday) mosque for the visitors and residents of the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD); an all-new mixed-use district in Riyadh.The inspiration and basis for the unique geometry of the mosque is the crystalline intersecting plates of a desert rose. The building is further landmarked by two sculpted 60m minarets.

Omrania Office
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Sultan Ahmed Mosque

Istanbul,
Turkey

The Blue Mosque, as it is popularly known, was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls, and at night the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes.[2] It sits next to the Hagia Sophia, another popular tourist site.

Mimar Sinan

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.