Bait Ur Rouf Mosque

The Bait Ur Rouf Mosque is a remarkable urban mosque located in a low-income neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was designed by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and finished in 2012, and it has been described as a spiritual haven in urban Dhaka. It has garnered praise for its magnificent use of natural light as well as for disrupting the status quo of traditional mosque design. Instead of traditional iconography like as domes and minarets, the mosque creates a prayer area that raises the spirit via open space and the beautiful interplay of light and shadow.

Bangladesh has a long history of mosque construction, dating back to the 13th century Turkish conquest. The first mosques utilized indigenous building traditions, such as tiny domes that span the roof and brick walls. To produce a design that defies the established quo, the architect merged this distinctive traditional Sultanate mosque architecture with a modern approach. The structure is built in a flood-prone area and has an axis tilted 13 degrees to the Qibla direction. To compensate for this angle, the structure is placed on a plinth with a cylinder within a square. This enabled the designer to spin the prayer hall in the proper orientation and create light courts on all four sides with space for various uses.

Google rating: 4.3/5.0
Address: Faidabad Transmitter Link Road, 1230, Bangladesh
Opening Hours: Mon - Sun (5am - 10pm)