Thursday, November 14, 2013

The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque


The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque (circa $1500 M) is the 4th biggest mosque in the world built from 300,000 tonnes of sandstone. The main musalla (prayer hall) is square (external dimensions 74.4 x 74.4 metres) with a central dome rising to a height of 50 metres above the floor.

The dome and the main minaret (90 metres) and four flanking minarets (45.5 metres) are the mosque’s chief visual features, facilitating a total capacity of 20,000 worshippers at a time.

The mosque is built on a site occupying 416,000 square metres and the complex extends to cover an area of 40,000 square metres.The job specification was limited to a very specific function at the latter part of the project- evaluation of contractor’s final statements– Wimpey Alawi (UK) - and 35 nominated work package

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