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_Al-Mawla Mosque

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Al-Mawla Mosque is designed following the Ottoman heritage style. As for the domes, they are built in Andalusian style. It represents the icon of modern architecture and combines heritage and modernity. It was erected within the heritage area of the new city of El Alamein.

The mosque has 44 domes in addition to the large dome. There are four majestic pencil-shaped minarets standing at the corners each is 45 meters high, with copper-clad spires and domes, and an impressive central dome ringed by four, small, semi-circular domes, rising on four single-arched domed riwaqs (colonnaded naves), with the domes hierarchy culminating at the entrance/Qibla riwaqs, topped diagonally with four shorter hexagonal minarets with dome-shaped crowns and smaller domes.

Mosque Data

Architect

ECG (Engineering Consultants Group)

Type

Central

Country

Egypt

Owner

Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Urban Communities

Year

2021

Area

4800 m²

Drawings

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