Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque, Mukhtarah Building

Amir Shakib Arslan Mosque in Mukhtarah

Design: L.E.FT, Architects. This building occupies a renovated cross-vaulted space, adding a veiled steel structure and a plaza in front. The slender minaret is formed of thinly-sliced steel plates, linked horizontally through a canopy to a curved entry wall.

WTC Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE

WTC Mosque

London-based architecture practice AL_A won an invited competition to design a new mosque building in Abu Dhabi. The Mosque is part of the World Trade Center developed by Aldar Properties, one of the largest developers in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Al-Ansar Mosque Singapore

Al Ansar Mosque

Design: ONG&ONG Pte Ltd. The design of the mosque is focused on creating an open and inclusive atmosphere, which is inviting to worshippers and the community at large.

Al Aziz Mosque in Abu Dhabi

Al Aziz Mosque

Design: APG Architecture and Planning Group. The whole facade comprises the 99 different names of Allah distributed on different elevations of the mosque in accordance with strict instruction of the holy Quran.

Aberdeen Mosque Building

Aberdeen Mosque building design

Aberdeen Mosque building, new religious project in Northeast Scotland – design by Makespace Architects, the newest and largest mosque in Aberdeen, the ‘oil capital of Europe’. It received planning permission in September 2013.

Central Mosque of Prishtina Design – Kosova

Central Mosque of Prishtina Design Kosovo design by studio MADe

The proposal deploys the most fundamental principle of the Islamic tradition, namely the sense of unity, to create a new city-level place of worship that is flexible enough to accommodate daily users and large Friday congregation.

Prishtina Central Mosque Competition, Kosovo

Prishtina Central Mosque Competition Kosovo design

The building is representative on a level worthy of a Central Mosque, not only by its monumental mass, but also by its contemporary architectural quality, symbolic expression of Islamic identity and tradition.

Yesil Vadi Mosque Istanbul building, Turkey

Yesil Vadi Mosque, Istanbul Building, Turkey

The circle form represents the universe and infinity (The symbol of infinity is formed by twisting a circle!). At the same time circle is the symbol of unity. Centric planned Ottoman mosques are circularized, permitted by extent of construction

Hackney Mosque Building: Islamic Design

Hackney Mosque Building

Hackney, London E2 – a new 3 storey contemporary addition to an existing mosque in a listed building in a conservation area has been given planning permission by Tower Hamlets.

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque, UAE

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque, UAE

The Middle East Lighting Design Award was given to Speirs and Major Associates in recognition of the significant contribution the lighting has made to the internal spaces of the building and the technical level of difficulty in achieving the result.