The Islamic Cultural Center In The New Administrative Capital / M.T Architects
Religious architecture The Islamic Cultural Center In The New Administrative Capital Egypt
East Service Building: It has 4 gates serves as main entries and linking between the secondary and the upper courtyards of the mosque. The building is built upon 45260m2. Its spaces are divided into shops and a public library 300 m2, 2 rooms for Quran memorization (100m2 for each), praying hall 1700m2, multi-use hall 650m2 and ablution areas to serve the mosque.
West Service Building: It has 4 gates serves as main entries and linking between the secondary and the upper courtyards of the mosque. The building is built upon 33085m2. Its spaces are divided into shops, media center with 3 administrative offices, WCs and ablution areas to serve the mosque.
Commercial Cultural Center: The building has 2 gates serves as main entries and 2 utility entrances that linking between the secondary and the upper courtyards of the mosque. The building’s total area is 59765 m2. Its spaces are divided into shops, administrative offices and meeting halls.
8 multi-story car park: with an area of 70,390 m2 consisting of 8 floors and a capacity for 1,750 cars.
The project includes a funeral path, for official state funerals
The Islamic Cultural Center in the New Administrative Capital includes a huge Islamic library with a large number of books containing the teachings of the Islamic religion
The Purpose was to implement an integrated social and Islamic cultural center to be a worldwide center for all Muslims, and a referentiality in the Islamic world. So, it’s considered one of the most magnificent Islamic centers in Africa and the Middle East.
How the project Contribute to the Community (social Impact):
The Islamic Cultural Center is a big scale project consists of (Misr Mosque- The Minarets- East Hall Building-West Hall Building-East Service Building- West Service Building- Commercial Cultural Center- Multi-story car park)
The Islamic Cultural Center was established to be a world-class center that aims to enrich intellectual, cultural, religious and social growth, spread the teachings of moderate and non-extremist Islamic religion and confront extremist religious movements. The Islamic Cultural Center aims as well to highlight the tolerance of the Islamic religion, which calls for peaceful coexistence, acceptance of others and freedom of belief in accordance with the law of difference and diversity in the universe.
The Islamic Cultural Center is one of the most important and famous landmarks of the New Administrative Capital of Egypt. It’s built on an area 116 feddans.
Construction Quality & Craftsmanship
The minarets consist of an inner and outer wall of concrete, so that the casting was by the climbing Formworks (flying shuttering), as the inner core was poured with a height of 4m, and the shuttering was climbing mechanically using hydraulic jacks, the same process for the outer core but with differential height of 8m.
The mosque includes the main dome and a number of secondary domes, as the main dome is 32 m in diameter, 25 m in height, and weighs 500 tons. It was assembled and finished on the ground and then lifted using 12 hydraulic cranes, as the capacity of one crane is about 50 tons, the dome was raised using wires.
Challenges:
The 2 minarets are 140m higher above the upper courtyard and the height of the crescent is 8m to become with a total height 148 m; each one is built upon 1600m2. The maximum height that could be accessible for concrete casting was 60 meters. It was necessary to provide a fixed concrete pump at the required height, and the concrete was distributed using the distributer.
Each minaret includes a metal dome with a load of 120 tons that was assembled and finished on the ground and raised to a height of 140 meters using a 600-ton up lifting crane, 2 tower cranes + a 350-ton ground crane. The severity of the winds and the difficulty of working at a high altitude were other challenges.
Each minaret contains 4 concrete balconies; their design has been changed to metal works for ease of implementation on this high altitude.
Magnificent Design:
The Islamic Cultural Center is one of the most important cultural centers in the Middle East and Africa as well.
It was taken into account while establishing the center to have a rich design and decorated by beautiful trappings to reflect the ancient Egyptian Islamic history and its extension throughout the ages.
The Islamic Cultural Center is distinguished by its 152 stairs, which lead to Mosque of Egypt, that considered one of the largest mosques in the world. The mosque is 20 m above the surface of the earth. The upper courtyard of the mosque, he is covered with toughened glass to give an aesthetic shape to the entrance to the mosque.
Visitors are allowed to enter the two 140m-high minarets and climb them to enjoy a panoramic view of the New Administrative Capital of Egypt.
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