Retal Mosque Design Competition

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Abdul Latif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture
2021-2022

قال تعالى :{قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي صَلَاتِهِمْ خَاشِعُونَ}

The verse explains: The importance of reverence in prayer, which achieves success for the believer.

The idea of designing the mosque: from the meaning of the verses, the design idea was inspired. The mass took the gradient shape to reach the highest height whenever the worshiper approaches the first row to give a sense of humility and reverence whenever he approaches the muezzin’s call to prayer. The gradient also creates a suggestion to direct the worshiper towards the front rows, due to the human instinct that tends to move from narrow to wide. Also, the entry of a gradual amount of natural lighting was controlled, so that the lighting would be dim at the beginning of the mosque and gradually increase until the first row, in order to ensure certainty. Confirmation of success and getting out of darkness into the light by performing prayer.