Great Mosque of Khartoum
The Great Mosque of Khartoum ( Arabic الجامع الكبير بالخرطوم, DMG al-Ǧāmiʿ al-kabīr bi-l-Ḫarṭūm ) is the Friday mosque in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum .
It is located in Suq Arabi , the city's business center and market district. The mosque was built in the Egyptian style under the Turkish rule of Sudan and can accommodate up to 10,000 people. The square building, which appears closed from the outside, has a floor area of 2000 square meters and is divided inside into a prayer hall and an inner courtyard surrounded by a colonnade. The two minarets are on the southwest side, opposite the mihrab wall. The minarets are three-fold based on the Egyptian model: an octagon follows a square cross-section and a circular shape in the upper half. The protruding balconies are integrated into the shape of the shaft by mukarnas (stalactites) and statically secured.
Women are not allowed in. A new low-rise building was built for them within the fenced-in mosque area. The mosque houses an institute for Islamic studies and is well attended due to its central location.
literature
- Bernhard Streck: Sudan. Stone graves and living cultures on the Nile. DuMont, Cologne 1982, p. 249
Web links
- Mosques. (PDF; 250 kB) Sudan Embassy
Coordinates: 15 ° 36 ′ 11.2 " N , 32 ° 31 ′ 34" E