Dubai’s Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation (AMAF) has announced that construction of the Middle East’s first eco-friendly mosque is now 25% complete, with several milestones already passed.
Once built in March 2014, the Khalifa Al Tajer Masjid will accommodate 3,500 worshippers within its 4,180m2 built-up area, while the tallest of its minarets will rise to a height of 23m.
The majority of the concrete on the project has already been successfully poured on schedule, including for the foundations, piers, beams, main ceiling, minarets and the slab for the ablution block.
The electrical transformer room is also ready and set for delivery to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), while the brickwork for mosque’s outer walls is 40% complete, and work is now underway on the internal plaster in the Imam’s accommodation block.
HE Tayeb Al Rais, AMAF secretary general, said: “We are delighted to mark scheduled progress on the region’s first green mosque set to set itself apart as one of Dubai’s most recognisable landmarks.”
The mosque’s credentials include a 9,755m2 plot near the Clock Tower in Deira that will be nearly 60% landscaped while the structure incorporates solar panels, a roof garden for heat insulation and water-recycling technologies, re-using grey ablution water for irrigation and washroom supply.
Al Rais added: “Following the successful completion of this iconic initiative, AMAF aims to integrate green building standards into a large number of mosques in Dubai to make them eco-friendly and thereby contribute to Dubai’s long term sustainable development plans.”
