| 2013 |
Not built.
At the end of the Farewell Sermon, delivered as the final message of a perfected religion, our Prophet raised his blessed index finger and called out three times, “Be witness, O Lord”; and at the moment of his passing to the abode of eternity, he again raised his hands with the cry “Refîk-i A'lâ = the Most Exalted Companion.” These gestures have given direction to the architectural design and are symbolized by the mosque's reference to the Mi'raj (the Ascension) and the şadırvan's (ablution fountain's) reference to the miracle of Shaqq al-Qamar (the splitting of the moon).
The idea of the central plan and of unity in space, which has come down in mosque architecture from the Masjid al-Nabawi to the present day and was crowned at its highest level with the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, has been integrated with the minaret and expressed within a single shell, through a solution in which the circular space tapers like a reed pen and takes the form of an alif.
