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The mosque was designed by Dabbagh Architects founder Sumaya Dabbagh and is named after businessman Mohamed Abdulkhaliq Gargash, who died in 2016. It is one of the first mosques in the UAE to be designed by a woman architect.
The Gargash family funded the construction of the mosque, which is located along a major road in the industrial Al Quoz neighborhood of Dubai’s south. In addition to being modern, the family wanted it to be a peaceful place to pray away from the city’s hustle and bustle.
“We aimed to create a sanctuary, a sense of calm amongst the visual clutter and noise of the industrial Al Quoz district,” Dabbagh told Dezeen.
“The design approach is a response to the site, the setting, local materials available and equally importantly the experience created,” she said.
“All of these considerations have created a contemporary design that is of its time and place.”
Dabbagh Architects intended to develop a basic, clear form that would make the building stand out from traditional mosques, which are frequently composed of numerous blocks.
“Religious buildings are often used to express opulence and status,” said Dabbagh.
“For the Gargash Mosque, the client’s brief was to have simplicity. Thus the minimal design approach has created a building that stands out in its setting.”
A perforated canopy shelters a linear courtyard that divides the structure into two blocks.
A dome-covered main prayer space can be found on the first floor, while a women’s prayer place can be found upstairs in the bigger of the two blocks.
The ablution facilities and homes of the Imam and Moazen located on the other side of the courtyard.
To allow natural light to enter the mosque, some of the triangles in the pattern are perforated into the stone to let natural light into the mosque. On the walls of the prayer hall, a calligraphic Quranic passage was recessed into a band.
Dabbagh hopes that the project as a whole has succeeded in creating a mosque with a “sense of the sacred.”
Just looking at these pictures bring a sense of peace, can’t imagine how it would feel like actually being there!
So so beautiful.
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