Qatar Foundation Mosque (Education City Mosque)
Sandstone prayer hall raised on five columns, crowned by twin calligraphy-etched minarets soaring skyward.
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This guide to the Qatar Foundation Mosque in Education City follows architect Ada Yvars Bravo's answer to an odd engineering brief: how to rest a stone prayer hall meant for 2,800 worshippers on just five columns. It traces the disputed year the building actually opened, the Five Pillars etched into those columns, and calligrapher Taha al-Hiti's verses climbing the twin minarets skyward.
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