Our voyage endures but this week, we guise at one of major Masjid of Pakistan in the world. Abstract in 1966, this construction is a marvelous comprehension by a Turkish designer.
Shah Faisal Masjid, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Greek architect-engineer and town planner Dr. Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1913-1975) bestowing his first thoughts for the Dominant Plan of Islamabad.
When Islamabad was constructed to substitute Karachi as capital of Pakistan. Its dominant plan was encouraged by Greek architecture. The city trails a triangular network system towards the Margalla hills.
The capital is divided into eight purposeful zones (diplomatic, administrative, commercial, residential, special institutions, national park, forest strap and industrial).
In 1966, King Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia stay in Islamabad and liked the impression of a Masjid in the new capital. The Masjid is named after him as honor to his large contribution to concealment the cost of creation.
In 1969, an international competition was whispered in which planners from 17 countries submitted 43 tenders.
The winning proposal was that of Turkish architect Vedat Dalokay.
The design of the building instantly created condemnation objecting the lack of a traditional dome assembly.
The idea that Dalokay accomplished was to present the Masjid as a summit for the modern capital, Islamabad, where he established his impression based on Quranic guidelines.
His visualization was a stability between the framework, innovation, monumentality, and respected legacy. He used an Arabic camp strategy to be like and be an allowance of the Margalla Mounds.
“The foremost subject in the plan of the Shah Faisal Masjid is the delight of living”.
v Vedat Dalokay.
The symmetrical thought was engaged from the Kaaba. Dalokay started the outline policy taking into consideration the two main axes to the city, with the main building of the mosque organized evenly.
A large cascade raised on a platform leads to the ingress in the East, preceded by a main yard. Creation of the Masjid began in 1976 and accomplished in 1986.
Few facts about the mosque:
v The Masjid is designed like a Bedouin tent, bounded by four tall steeples (79m).
v The spires remained planned in a seamless one-to-one ratio with the base, to generate an indiscernible block that indicates to the Kabaa
v The proposal structures eight-sided case-shaped inclined roofs creating a triangular devotion hall which can hold 10,000 worshippers. The structure refuges an area of 5,000sqm
v The Masjid and its yard can grasp nearly 300,000 worshippers.
v The major Masjid in Pakistan, the Faisal Masjid was the prime Masjid in the world from until 1986 to 1993, before larger Masjid were built in the MENA area.
v The Faisal Masjid is also where the grave of General Zia-ul-Haq (President of Pakistan, 1978 to 1988) has been constructed.
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