Minaretein Center

This guide to the Minaretein Center in Doha follows Iraqi architect and calligrapher Taha al-Hiti's answer to an odd design brief: making a hall for twenty-eight hundred worshippers feel like it floats. You'll hear how he raised the prayer hall on five inscribed columns, cooled the entrance with a four-story water cascade instead of fans, and carved his own calligraphy up two ninety-meter minarets. Walk the courtyard's four water channels — each stands for one of the rivers of paradise named in the Qur'an.