The imposing mosque and educational center Jamia Sultania in Brierfield, Lancashire County, UK, Known as the city of the mill.
The mosque was completed after a design process lasting ten years and an investment of 3,5 million pounds (about 4,2 million euros) by the local Muslim community.
The new building, work of the architect Mr. Al-Samairre of Archi-Structure, Baildon, West Yorkshire, is today, with 2000 faithful, One of the largest mosques in the Lancashire.
The interior decoration honors the past not only through the use of many traditional materials, but also thanks to the adoption of modern construction methods e materials such as DuPont ™ Corian® technosurface.
The new structure is dedicated both to training is worship and has eight classrooms downstairs.
The spacious main prayer hall offers also mezzanine floor, an area of prayer dedicated to women for which a special design solution was required to be able to elegantly separate and connect the two areas.
Il designer Umar Faruque of Studio Architekton, specializing in contemporary Islamic interiors, was called a create such a structure and has proposed the concept of thirty eight decorative bows inspired by the Moorish architecture of Andalusia.
The arches had to integrate well with i marble from Pakistan e Turkey characterizing the main hall.
this project, the designers chose a versatile material and modernIn harmony with the aesthetics of the environment, easy to manufacture and assemble.
Umar Faruque was familiar with the properties of DuPont ™ Corian® and the creative way these have been applied to numerous projects around the world, therefore he was keen to explore for this facility, the flexibility of the material and its flawless finish.
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