Al Noor Mosque
Mosque in Sharjah
Key facts
- Built
- 2005
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Overview
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Al Noor Mosque stands on the shore of Khalid Lake in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It was built in the Ottoman architectural style and is said to be influenced by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul. Two minarets and a large central dome define the building, and the dome is ringed by windows of coloured glass. Carved and ornamental decoration appears on the columns inside and outside the mosque. It holds about 2,200 worshippers, 1,800 men and 400 women. It is one of roughly 600 mosques in Sharjah and one of only three open to non-Muslim visitors.
History
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Construction began on 6 April 2003. The design was produced by the academic architecture office of the Emirate of Sharjah, with United Engineering as the main contractor. Fibreglass, marble and gypsum were used in the building. The mosque was completed in 2005 and is owned by the government of Sharjah.
In 2014 it entered the Guinness World Records for a very large charity box built for its Ramadan donation campaign.
From Wikipedia
Al Noor Mosque (Arabic: جَامِع ٱلنُّوْر, romanized: Jāmiʿ An-Nūr) is a mosque in Sharjah, the U.A.E., located on the Khaled lagoon at the Buhaira Corniche. It is of Turkish Ottoman design and was influenced by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Turkey. It is one of the mosques open to the public in Sharjah, which has over 600 total.
In 2014 the mosque set a Guinness World Record for the "World's largest wooden charity box" for their Ramadan donation campaign.
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Sources
Wikipedia (ar): https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1_(%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A9)
Wikipedia (de): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-Nur-Moschee_(Schardscha)
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Noor_Mosque_(Sharjah)
Wikipedia (ur): https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%81