Overview
The siting was deliberate: the two buildings face each other across one road, share their parking on each other’s holy days, and since 2021 are joined by an underground walkway called the Tunnel of Friendship. The main dome is forty-five metres across for the year 1945, and the single minaret is a little under sixty-seven metres for the number of verses in the Quran. A renovation finished in 2020 stripped the interior back to its concrete and marble.
Highlights
Non-Muslim visitors are welcome outside prayer times and are given a robe and a guide at the visitor entrance, at no charge. Go up to the first-floor gallery for the scale of the prayer hall, which is impossible to read from the floor. Friday midday is the one time to avoid; Ramadan evenings are the one time it is worth planning for.