Assaleh Mosque, Unique Architecture
The Source: www.sabanews.net - 7/12/2008
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The Project of Assaleh Mosque was built on an area estimate at 224,831
square meters including roads, gardens, passages and car parks. The
mosque is wide enough for 45 thousands worshipers. Its parks could
include 1900 cars.
The mosque has six very high minarets with
the highest of 80-100 meter, the highest ones in the Middle East, and
23 domes distributed in different parts of the mosque. The greatest
dome is 54,5 high with a diameter of 28 meter, its exterior part is
covered with substance called L.G.R.C with white and red colors. Inside
the dome is adorned with carved verses of the Holy Koran and gypsum
adornments.
The mosque includes many service facilities
and great Islamic library includes ten thousands of books and
publishing in addition to religious valuable references and rare
antique manuscripts.
The mosque includes Assaleh College for
Koran and Islamic Sciences in a nearby building linked to the mosque
with the same architecture construction of the mosque.
The
prayer hall is rectangular with 147,4 meter long and 87, 4 meter width
with an area of 12,883 square meter. The roofs of the mosque have two
levels, the first one is 21 meter height and the second level is 24
meter. The mosque has 15 doors and 24 windows.
The mosque has
112 giant columns, 68 of them are round ones and located in the middle
of the mosque. The diameter of each column is 150 centimeter. There are
also 40 wall columns in the form of half circle with radius of 75
centimeter for each. These columns are linked to adorned beads.
The
mosque has additional building to women for performing prayer. The area
of the building is 288 square meter with 86 meter length and 14,8 meter
width and with the highest of 5,20 meter. The building has two
entrances eastern and western in addition to 30 bathrooms.
Assaleh College for Koran and Sharia Studies
Mosque
includes a college for teaching Koran and Islamic Law. The college is
composed of 3 floors with an area of 7,759 square meters including the
area of the open gallery estimated at 2100 square meter. The colleges
is composed of several sections for the holly Koran and its sciences,
Sharia or Islamic law, foundations of "Fiqh" or jurisprudence, belief
and Sunnah.
Facilities
The mosque contains a hall for
ceremonies, libraries, green areas and car parks in addition to Assaleh
Library that contains thousands of books and references, antique,
historical, scientific and literary manuscripts with library for men
and another one for women and a section for modern translation.
There
are 102 bathrooms distributed on eastern and western sides with two
bathrooms for people of special needs. There are also 108 bathrooms
outside the galleries. The mosque contains a private well and
irrigation network for the green areas surrounding the mosque.
A
number of Scholars and heads of delegations who have participated in
formal opening of Assaleh Mosque praised uniqueness of the mosque and
the College of the Holly Koran and Legislation.
Talking to
Saba, the delegations praised architectural, adornment and technical
components making the mosque unique and mixing it with originality of
ancient Yemeni architecture and civilization and modernity.
Sheikh
al-Azhar Mohammad Tantawi says:" Assaleh Mosque is a blessed mosque
based on holly foundations to which ten thousands of worshipers come
for performing prayers."
"We want from Assaleh Mosque to be
assigned for the purpose its founder wanted; a edifice for science,
wisdom and guidance as the matter for the rest of Allah's houses. Allah
says in Qudsi Hadith: 'My houses in the earth are the Mosques and My
visitors in are those who are keen on praying in them', " he added,
stressing that the mosque must be a place for reform, Taqwa and praying
Almighty God and a place for calling for beneficence and for promoting
for virtue and warning of vice.
For his part, Secretary
General of Muslims Staff in Iraq Sheikh Hareth Adhari expressed
admiration for the architectural and artistry construction of the
mosque' components saying :" I am very happy to attend the ceremony of
opening Islamic milestone in Yemen," hoping that this mosque and the
college to be a start for Islamic University in the mosque.
While
Minister of Islamic Affairs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Saleh
Al-Sheikh considered Assaleh Mosque and the college great modern
achievement recall Yemen civilization and its religious and material
strength and reflects grasping of Islamic civilization.
Meanwhile,
Supreme Advisor of Islamic Republic of Iran Haider Muslehi considered
the mosque a "religious center for religious and Islamic education of
Arab and Islamic Nations," highlighting this Islamic landmark that
seeks to spread Islamic values and establishing Islamic unity.
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