India’s biggest mosque to come up

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India’s biggest mosque to come up

Kerala : Estimated to cost Rs. 40 crore, India’s biggest mosque, capable of accommodating 25,000 people at a time, will come up on a 12-acre site ‘Knowledge City’ complex of an Islamic centre of learning near Kozhikode.It will be one of India’s important Islamic cultural centres,said sources at the Jamia Markazu Ssaquafathi Ssunniyya, an education and cultural organisation.

The building would cover eight acres and would be surrounded by a four-acre green belt and beautiful garden. Besides a vast prayer hall, the complex would have an auditorium for seminars, a huge library and facilities to accommodate over
1000 people at a time

Thrissur-based architect Riyaz Muhammad, the designer of the mosque, said it would be based on the Mughal architectural style. Located at Karanthur, about 10 km from Kozhikode, Markazu is an Islamic centre of learning and charity.

Jamia Markazu Ssaqafathi Ssunniyya is an Islamic university in Kerala, India, operating since 1978. It has roughly 10,000 students studying Qur’an, Hadith, Fiq’h, Arts, Science and Technology under different institutes from various parts of india. .It aims to strengthen the moral character of the Muslim society by developing the leadership capacities of Ulama and the Muslim umma.. Al-Azhar University of Cairo has extended its recognition to courses taught by the Jamia Markazu Ssaqafati Ssunniyya.. Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmed,(Kanthapuram Abubaker Musliyar) secretary-general of the Markaz managing committee heads the organization.


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Largest mosque in India coming up at Kozhikode

India’s biggest mosque, larger than Delhi’s Jama Masjid, is coming up in Kerala, thanks to Abu Bakr Ahmed alias Kanthapuram Aboobacker Musliyar, who heads the Markazu Ssaqafathi Ssunniyya group of Islamic institutions.

Being built on the outskirts of Kozhikode, the mosque will have a built-up area of 250,000 sq. ft., far out-sizing the 17th century mosque commissioned by emperor Shah Jahan in the capital city of the Mughal empire.

The mosque will be located in the Markaz Knowledge City, a 500-acre self-contained township. The township will accommodate a centre for Islamic learning, an information technology (IT) hub, a medical college, an engineering college, schools, hospitals, shopping malls and various other institutions, besides residential complexes.

“The mosque will reflect the universal brotherhood and spiritual enlightenment that Islam stands for. There will also be a library for Islamic research and a conference hall where both Muslims and non-Muslims can come in pursuit of knowledge,” said the Musliyar.
“We are receiving huge support from people from all walks of life, especially the Kerala diaspora”.

Musliyar heads the popular social, charity and educational organisation which has in the past three decades educated more than 30,000, including a large number of children from displaced families in Gujarat and Kashmir.

The Sha’ar-e-Mubarak Grand Masjid is planned on a 12-acre plot of which eight acres have been set apart for landscaping a Mughal-style garden. The structures in the township will be environment-friendly with a lot of open space and greenery.

“We are planning to start work on 250 acres already acquired for the project in five months and the mosque will be ready in two years. The entire project will be complete in another five years,” said Riyaz Mohamed, the architect of the project who is credited with building some half a million square feet of public spaces including the Hajj House, Karipur, Infopark, Koratty and the National Institute of Fashion Technology campus at Kannur.
The mosque, with an open-sky courtyard, is expected to be completed at a cost of Rs400mn while the entire township project will cost around Rs12bn. It will be able to accommodate 25,000 people for prayer at a time.

“My effort is to blend traditional Islamic architecture with modern technology adopting the green building concept. It will also employ a large number of people in this backward area,” said Mohamed, a graduate from the National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode. “The built-up area will harmoniously blend with the greenery around”.


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Industrial City

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which state is in it got to visit it as i always visit haji ali

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which state is in it got to visit it as i always visit haji ali

State which has the oldest mosque of the whole subcontinent , Kerala.

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I just hate wasting precious land for religious bullshits. What is there in religion to be learned after spending 40 crores and 12 acres of land.

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Kozhikode.....didn't surprise me...................

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I just hate wasting precious land for religious bullshits. What is there in religion to be learned after spending 40 crores and 12 acres of land.

It has industrial, media city, cultural city, education city, and all amenities included.. The learning is just a part. Educational institutions by religious communities are not rare and infact the best colleges are by religious boards.

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State which has the oldest mosque of the whole subcontinent , Kerala.

thanks for the piece of information i didnt knew it my bad

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Kozhikode.....didn't surprise me...................

ajtr... again.. didnt surprise me either. Please spare this thread atleast. Its about development.