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Abdullatif AlFozan Award for Mosque Architecture

Architecture and Planning

Overview

Mosque important roles in the life of Muslim communities wherever you are and as they are places of worship and a source of tranquility and serenity, spirituality every Muslim. It is also a gathering of population centers around them, bring them closer to each other, and broadcast them morals and wholesome cream including science content of the multi-religious, scientific and social activities. It is also an important cultural elements in the city are stationed around the growth of cities and breadth of the Islamic world through the ages. And it can not understand the evolution of the traditions of the various Muslim world architecture without studying the evolution of mosques architecture; the mosque was a key element in the definition of these traditions, and identify landmarks in many periods, and also the creativity in the Muslim world architecture often appeared in the clear features in the architecture of mosques.