Work

Faisal Mosque

Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is Pakistan's national mosque and was designed by Turkish architect Vedat Dalokay as a contemporary reinterpretation of a tent form.

building

built

1986

Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

Mosque

mosque religious architecture national monument concrete marble Mosque

Concrete Stone

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Gallery

Faisal Mosque gallery

Faisal Mosque image

Seed wave 64 image for Faisal Mosque.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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Architects

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Architect

Vedat Dalokay

1927-1991 · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Role: architect

Primary contributor

Vedat Dalokay was a Turkish architect whose best-known international work is the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.

Bureaus

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Bureau

Vedat Dalokay

studio · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Role: designer

Primary bureau

Vedat Dalokay extends the corpus as a studio-level record for sculptural civic and religious architecture across Turkey and Pakistan.

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Work

Summit Minar, Lahore

1974 · Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

House

Vedat Dalokay