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Prayer Hall
Kufic panels, a gilded mihrab and a gilt dome over a flowered carpet.
F&B, Corporate & Commercial
231 | Private Mosque
Location
Sharjah, UAE
Type
Private Mosque
The idea
A bright prayer hall in cream and gold.
This private mosque in Sharjah is a single, light-filled prayer hall. Tall windows dressed in slate-blue curtains bring daylight across the room, and between them the walls are lined with pierced panels of square Kufic script in cream and gold.
The qibla wall steps forward around a fluted, gilded mihrab flanked by panels of blue and gold tile. Above, a shallow gilt dome with a crystal chandelier sits within a coffered ceiling patterned in soft damask, and a cream carpet scattered with blue flowers is laid in prayer rows across the floor.
Material palette
Flowered prayer carpet
Prayer hall floor
Gilt dome & crystal
Ceiling
Cream damask ceiling
Coffered ceiling
About the project
Daylight, carpet and a gilt ceiling
Entry is straight into the one room, so the whole space reads at once. Daylight crosses it from the long side, softened by the curtains, and falls on the rows of carpet before it reaches the far wall. The eye is drawn forward to the mihrab, then upward, where the dome gathers the glow of the chandelier.
Three finishes carry the room. The flowered carpet covers the floor and marks out the rows for prayer, its blue answering the curtains. Overhead, the cream damask of the coffers keeps the ceiling soft and even. The gilt dome, with its crystal at the centre, is the one point of shine, catching both daylight and lamplight. The mosque stands in Sharjah.
Private mosque interior design in Sharjah begins with the needs of prayer: orientation, calm and an even, comfortable floor. Here the single hall is kept open, so worshippers face the qibla wall without interruption and the rows of the carpet give the room its order. Daylight through the tall windows is filtered by curtains to avoid glare during prayer, and the Kufic panels bring script into the walls themselves rather than as added decoration. Cream and gold keep the hall bright, while the blue of the curtains, tiles and carpet ties it together. IAIA, practising since 1994, brings this care to interior architecture of every kind.
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