Sheikh Khalifa Mosque in Kazakhstan
Sheikh Khalifa Mosque in Kazakhstan
The mosque, funded by the Khalifa Foundation for Humanitarian Work, accommodates more than three thousand and 500 worshipers in Kazakhstan and is called "Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Mosque."The mosque is located in the Kazakh city of Shimkent on a building area of ​​four thousand square meters and a prayer hall for women with an area of ​​270 square meters. More than 50 percent of the mosque project that serves worshipers has been completed in the city of Shimkent, which has a population of one million and 200 thousand people.The mosque was designed in the Islamic architectural style and is considered after the opening of one of the largest mosques in Kazakhstan .. While the project aims to provide a decent place for worship and prepare a cultural radiation center for Muslims there, as the mosque is characterized by its vastness and the abundance of annexes and facilities attached to it and includes a large prayer hall and four minarets, each of which reaches a height of up to 31 meters in addition to a large dome with a height of 37 meters .. The mosque also includes a group of "toilets, multiple places for ablution, a residence for the imam, a public library and parking for 120 cars."The total site area of ​​the mosque is about six thousand and 500 square meters, while the construction area is about four thousand square meters, and all construction work is nearing completion.