The greatest mosque within the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), with 62 domes and 6 minarets, the Dr. Suat Günsel Mosque, will open its door to worshippers on Thursday.
Representatives from many Islamic nations, particularly from Türkiye and the TRNC, will attend the opening ceremony deliberate for Friday on the Near East University campus.
The constructing was constructed on an space of 30,000 sq. meters (98,425 toes).
Including these in Türkiye, it’s the sixth mosque with six minarets within the area.
It took 10 years to construct and was accomplished with nice effort.
It will permit 10,000 individuals to worship on the similar time. The essential dome of Suat Günsel Mosque is 36.8 meters excessive and 23.8 meters in diameter.
The essential dome is surrounded by 61 domes of smaller diameters. There are 27 domes and 9 semi-domes within the mosque part, and 26 domes within the portico part.
The mosque has six minarets, every of which is 76.2 meters excessive, and has three balconies. The different two minarets, every 56.45 meters excessive, have two balconies.
The supplies used within the gold-colored chrome steel and chrome-plated domes and minarets have been decided by the Turkish Cypriot individuals via a survey.
Stained glass, designed and ready by the artists of the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts in their very own workshops, adorns the 104 home windows of the mosque.
In the mosque, the dome and minaret finials are utterly solid in aluminum and the most important one is 7 meters lengthy. All castings have been made within the workshops on the Near East University campus.
A complete of 47 chandeliers within the mosque have been additionally designed by the artists of the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts and produced in their very own workshops.
All of the dome and inside decorations of the mosque have been accomplished with oil portray strategies by the artists of the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, costing roughly one yr of handbook labor.
Doors, pulpits and different furnishings, which magnetize consideration with their detailed engravings, have been designed and produced by Ikas Furniture, a subsidiary of Near East Formation.
As a results of the survey, it was determined by the general public to make use of white stone, distinctive to Cyprus, within the outer areas of the mosque. The stone workmanship of the mosque bears the signature of Turkish Cypriot craftspeople.
Dr. Suat Günsel Mosque was constructed fully with the skills of Turkish Cypriots, from its architectural design, engineering and development course of to the stained glass, chandeliers and finials used, and from the dome and inside decorations to wooden and stone workmanship.
In this respect, the mosque will go down in historical past as the best monumental work that the Turkish Cypriots dropped at the Island through the TRNC interval.
Source: www.dailysabah.com