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Masjid-e-Tooba
Mosque in Karachi, Pakistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Masjid-e-Tooba (Urdu: مسجد طوبٰی) also known as Gol Masjid (lit. 'Round Mosque'), is a mosque located in the city of Karachi in Sindh province of Pakistan.[1][2] It is situated near the main Korangi Road in Phase II of the Defence Housing Authority, Karachi.[1][3]
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Construction
The construction of the mosque began in 1966.[2] It took three years and was completed in 1969. The mosque was designed by Pakistani architect Babar Hameed Chauhan and the structural engineer for the project was Zaheer Haider Naqvi.[1] The mosque has the capacity to hold up to 5,000 people.[3] It has praying hall under wider dome without any pillar or column.[2] The dome has the diameter of 212 feet (65 m). The mosque is built over a total area of 4,657 square metres (5,570 sq yd). It has single minaret with a height of 120 feet (37 m).[1]
The mosque is considered to be the largest single-dome mosque in the world with no pillars in its central prayer hall. Its huge dome is supported on a low surrounding wall.[1][4]
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