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We three friends Taimour Hashmi, Ammar Azhar and Me (Umer Hayat) made plan that we should pray taraveeh in world’s beautiful “Shah Faisal Mosque” in this Ramadan. You know it’s hard to show patience if you are talking about such beautiful place. So without further delay, we went to Shah Faisal Mosque for 2nd Ramadan’s taraveeh. It was a great journey, as we all live in Rawalpindi, almost 30-40 kilometers from Shah Faisal Mosque (which is situated in Islamabad), so we sat in taxi at 9 pm and went start to the mosque without further wait in only 200 PKR equals to $2.50.

In the way, we were thinking that we are late and as usual blaming each other for cause, but when we reached at the mosque’s door we found that we are on time. Mosque is so beautiful, total marble flooring, very neat and clean. It was too big that we don’t even remember where were the place for ablution. We did inquiry for that. That person was so nice, he guided us. Finally we were at the ablution point.

Ablution place was so beautifully created with marble. It was like boxes in which water pore down. All in all that was quite beautiful and good looking. After that we went up to the mosque’s main hall. That was an awesome hall. If you go to that hall, I believe that you will say exactly the same as I said “O great Subhan-Allah”. Although it was not my first visit to Shah Faisal Mosque but still it was something really excited for me.

So we go in there and just sat on 6th row as there were 6 rows completed till then. After listening to mosque’s Imam for 5 min, we all started taraveeh. Imam was great in reciting Quran. We found great pleasure in listening the holy Quran.

Then suddenly after 10th taraveeh, I saw a new Imam took place. That person was also really nice even his speed of reciting Quran was too slow. So it was really easy in understanding the holy Quran.

All in all, we were quite happy. Prayer ended at 12:07 am. We did dua as well after finish. beg hundreds of things from Allah Almighty including the growth of this Islamic blog.

To summarize the story, we took another taxi and came back our homes at 2:00 am, that time driver took 230 PKR nearly equals to $2.90. bit nice though!

Hang on! Hang on!

If you think that I’ll only share my story with you and nothing else that you are completely wrong. This is not my style atleast. I want to share some very important fact and figures about the great “Shah Faisal Mosque” and it’s unique design with you as I’m a big fan of this quote “Everything at one place“.

Something knowledgable about Shah Faisal Mosque:

• Shah Faisal Mosque situated in Islamabad , capital city of Pakistan.
• Started building in 1976 and completed in 1986.
• Courtesy of Saudi King Shah Faisal as he gave this as a gift to Pakistan (you can see mosque is after his name).
• It is so unique in architecture, designed by world renowned Turkish architect “Vedat Dalokay”.
• Construction cost well over $120 million.
• The main prayer hall and courtyard can hold up to 1 hundred thousands people with total capacity of 3 hundred thousands.
• Each of the Mosque’s four minarets are 90 m (260 ft) high (the tallest minarets in South Asia) and measure 10 x 10 m in circumference.
• It was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 to 1993, now it’s on 3rd right after “Masjid al-Haram” and “Masjid-al-Nabawi”.
• One of the biggest mosque in the world with cover area of 53,821 square feet (5,000 sq m).
• The Islamic University is also located in the Mosque grounds and the first floor with facilities of Library, Conference Room, Printing Press and Cafeteria. An Islamic Research Institute is also associated with the University.

Click Here for a 3D view of this marvelous wonder.

Here are some great snapshots of “Shah Faisal Mosque”. Hopefully you will like it.

Here are some beautiful videos of that amazing mosque. Great to watch.

That’s it for now. Please tell us what you think about this story and especially about this great mosque. Looking forward to hear from you.:)